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

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" Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Orleans. And I'm really a jazz singer. I was impressed with Elvis - he was the handsomest guy I ever met in my life, and a very nice person, too. But the music doesn't impress me. "

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

" Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It's a great thing that the United States has given the rest of the world - no other country has given such great popular music to the Far East and Europe. When I play those great countries, a lot of times, the audience starts singing the songs with me. They know them. They love them. "

" 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. "

" Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you had the best. Harold Arlen was just fantastic. Cole Porter was better than anybody, and Gershwin was Gershwin, y'know. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole. "

" I had the greatest time of my life in England for a couple of years, and Robert Farnon made some of the best music I've ever been around. "

" When Sinatra said, 'For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer I've ever heard,' it changed my career completely. He was my best friend, and I was his best friend... but I was never part of the Rat Pack. "

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

" My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things. "

" When you get older, you don't have to eat a lot. I get my rest and sleep very well at night. It keeps me very balanced. "

" Every show is different. The public has always been nice to me. I'm fortunate that way. "

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

" Every day feels like just starting out because I still have so much more to learn. "

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

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

" Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for. "

" I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world. "

" I've never worked a day in my life. "

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

" I'd like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you've become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better. "

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

" I've been very fortunate. I'm doing what I love, and I'm getting away with it, you know? "

" I take care of myself. I work out three times a week. I have a trainer, and we just work out for an hour. "

" 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 don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation and making sure that I'm hitting the notes right on the head... and having it appear quite effortless. "