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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Never treat the audience disrespectfully. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" No matter what age you are, there's a lot of room for learning. "

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

" 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. "

" I'll never retire. "

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

" I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique. "

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