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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. "

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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. "

Tony Bennett

1920s

United States

Renaissance

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

" It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Tony Bennett

Gift

Tough

" 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

" 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. "

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

Tony Bennett

I Can

Feel

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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 study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'll call it a day when I die. It's a wonderful occupation for me. I've never worked a day in my life. "

" 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. "

Tony Bennett

Great

Birthday

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