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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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" 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. "

Tony Bennett

Believe

Compromise

Look

" 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. "

" Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you. "

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

" 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. "

Tony Bennett

Job

Life

" 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. "

Tony Bennett

Life

My Life

" Never treat the audience disrespectfully. "

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

" I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs. Today, record companies are failing because they are putting their accent just on the young, and I think that's rather silly. "

Tony Bennett

Today

Young

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

" When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art. "

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

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

Tony Bennett

I Can

Feel

" 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. "

Tony Bennett

Out

Point

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Tony Bennett

Rest

Night

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

Tony Bennett

Every Day

Learn

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I have grown to appreciate the power of believing in myself and of always having faith in myself. I rarely look back; instead, I always look forward. There is so much of life that we miss when we wallow in regret. "

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

" I'll never retire. "

Tony Bennett

Retire

Never

" 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. "

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

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

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