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More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.
Tony Bennett
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Tony Bennett
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: August 3
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New York City
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More quotes by Tony Bennett
I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.
Tony Bennett
I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.
Tony Bennett
I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!
Tony Bennett
The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.
Tony Bennett
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.
Tony Bennett
I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.
Tony Bennett
I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
Tony Bennett
I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality, it's a God-given gift that just certain individuals have.
Tony Bennett
I always feel the audience is my best teacher.
Tony Bennett
I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.
Tony Bennett
There's always something every night that I learn from reacting to what the audience is reacting to. You learn what to leave out, what to put in, if you need a little more comedy or more drama.
Tony Bennett
It helps to know there is going to be continuity.
Tony Bennett
It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world's going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.
Tony Bennett
Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.
Tony Bennett
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.
Tony Bennett
Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.
Tony Bennett
I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.
Tony Bennett
That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.
Tony Bennett
When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.
Tony Bennett
Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.
Tony Bennett
