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" I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today. "

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" In America, at the beginning of talkies, they pulled Fred Astaire from the theaters and put him on the screen and had all of these great composers write songs for him. They call it the Great American Songbook; I call it the Fred Astaire Songbook because they were written for him. "

Tony Bennett

American

Him

Great

" I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43. "

" To work is to feel alive. "

" I still feel that I can get better somehow. And I search for it all of the time. "

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Feel

" More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform. "

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" As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn. "

" It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else. "

" I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. "

" I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music. "

" If something is good, it's always good. You don't have to change it. "

" The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period. It stopped in 1950. "

" The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people. "

" Nobody has communicated with the public more than Lady Gaga. Ever. I trust the audience, and I'm very impressed. As far as they're concerned, she's part of their family. The only guy who ever did that was Bing Crosby, years ago. "

" I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature. "

" Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole. He just let them sing whatever they wanted, and it became the best record company in America. "

" When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you're right there at that moment. It's true to reality. And the closer it gets, once it gets too technical, it becomes very tinny to hear notes. It doesn't sound right. It has to be natural. "

" If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place. "

" I was possessed with a wonderful example of my Italian American family. They would come over and join us every Sunday, all my aunts and uncles and nephews and nieces, and I would sing for them. "

Tony Bennett

Sunday

American

" To me, life is a gift, and it's a blessing to just be alive. And each person should learn what a gift it is to be alive no matter how tough things get. "

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Gift

Tough

" Gaga is a gorgeous singer, and when she sings a great ballad, I get goose bumps. "

" I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing. "

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Job

Life

" I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving. "

" I love entertaining people; I strive to make them feel good, and they make me feel wonderful. To explain it simply, I like what I do, and my ambition is to get better as I get older. That's really what I'm all about. "

" I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause. "

" The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been sold out ever since. "

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Out

Point

" Singing is a gift. "

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Gift

Singing

" I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was. "

" I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it. "

" The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized. "

" My whole premise has been, right from the beginning, that it would take me a lifetime to learn to explain myself as an artist. As you grow older, you learn what to do and what to leave out. You kind of simplify your work and get the same thing done with fewer strokes. It's pretty interesting to me. "

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Myself