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I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.
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Tony Bennett
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: August 3
Actor
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Jazz Musician
Painter
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Singer
New York City
New York
Anthony Dominick Benedetto
Anthony Dominick Tony Benedetto
Anthony Benedetto
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I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.
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I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.
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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.
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You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.
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I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.
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I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It helps to know there is going to be continuity.
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I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.
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The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.
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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.
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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.
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More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.
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When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.
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I always feel the audience is my best teacher.
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I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.
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If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.
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I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
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