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The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.
Tony Bennett
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Tony Bennett
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: August 3
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New York City
New York
Anthony Dominick Benedetto
Anthony Dominick Tony Benedetto
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I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.
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What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.
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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.
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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.
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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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More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.
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I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
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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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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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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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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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When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.
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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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I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.
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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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Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.
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Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.
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If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.
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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.
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I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs. So they have to get it through a doctor, not just some gangsters who sell it under the table. Let's legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam. No one's hiding or sneaking around corners to get it. They go to a doctor to get it.
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