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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" To work is to feel alive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you had the best. Harold Arlen was just fantastic. Cole Porter was better than anybody, and Gershwin was Gershwin, y'know. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole. "

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

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

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