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" To work is to feel alive. "

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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. "

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

" I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. "

" 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. "

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

" Never treat the audience disrespectfully. "

" If something is good, it's always good. You don't have to change it. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'll never retire. "