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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. "
Tony Bennett
Tie
You
Think
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" I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world. "
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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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" Every week, as an 11-year-old kid, I would tune in to what was really the first American Idol-type program, a radio show called 'Major Bowes' Amateur Hour.' The winning group on the evening of September 8, 1935, was called the Hoboken Four, and their spokesman was Frank Sinatra, then aged 19. "
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" 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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" I'll never retire. "
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" 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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" I take care of myself. I work out three times a week. I have a trainer, and we just work out for an hour. "
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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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" I lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, and I still can't believe that the handsomest man in the world, Cary Grant, and the greatest performer in the world, Fred Astaire, and Johnny Carson, one after another - they were all in my home at different times. I celebrated my 50th birthday with them. Unforgettable. "
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World
" 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've never worked a day in my life. "
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" To work is to feel alive. "
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Alive
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" The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so. "
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Training
Energy
Great
" I was taught never to compromise: to never sing a cheap song. I never look down at the audience and think that they are ignorant or think that I'm more intelligent than they are. To think otherwise is totally incorrect and runs contrary to everything I was raised to believe. "
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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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" 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. "
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Friend
Career
Best Friend
" I'll call it a day when I die. It's a wonderful occupation for me. I've never worked a day in my life. "
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Day
Life
Die
" 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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She
Nobody
Lady
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place. "
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" 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. "
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" I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music. "
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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. "
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" I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43. "
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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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United States
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" I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature. "
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Nature
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Top
" I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world. "
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" 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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