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" I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music. "
Tony Bennett
Still
Learning
Lot
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" The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized. "
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" Performers should really go to the best schools, like Lady Gaga, you know, she went to NYU and had great teachers... It's best to really study your technique as much as you possibly can so you can have a long career instead of a quick one that's a failure. "
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" Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you. "
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" I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. "
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" 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. "
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" Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off. "
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" It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else. "
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" I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it. "
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Wait
Paint
" The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people. "
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Whole
Very
" 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. "
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Better
" 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. "
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Ambition
People
" More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform. "
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Like
" I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was. "
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Than
Heroes
Those
" For many years, I've always been attached to what they call the Great American Songbook, and Kern was a great leader of that because he had the classical training of Europe. He impressed all the greatest composers, like Cole Porter and Gershwin. They couldn't believe he was writing the songs he was writing. "
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Always
" 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. "
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Lady
" Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent. "
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" To work is to feel alive. "
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Alive
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" 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. "
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Us
Sunday
American
" I'll never retire. "
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Retire
Never
" 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. "
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You
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" 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. "
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" I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world. "
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Still
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" 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. "
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1920s
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" Every day feels like just starting out because I still have so much more to learn. "
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" 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. "
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Reality
Great
Moment
" 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. "
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Great
World
Singing
" I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique. "
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Art
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