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He's a cult hero over here for doing it.
Tony Bennett -
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.
Tony Bennett
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If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.
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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'm just like the relief pitcher in the bullpen keeping my arm warm until they call on me. That's the role I take. It provides great continuity for recruiting, just for the direction of the program.
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The biggest message I've given our team, and I think it's really important, is first of all, no one can take away what happened last year. It's obviously a fun year, a terrific year. But I think a big mistake would be to try to compare themselves or ourselves to last year's team. I think the key really is, and I told them this: for you as a group, you're a different team.
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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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The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.
Tony Bennett
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He's just a freshman and we have a lot of depth this year. I think there's such an adjustment for freshmen from a strength and physical standpoint. He's doing a good job with that. He's a complete player. He just has to continue to improve and get himself used to this level.
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I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent.
Tony Bennett -
I always feel the audience is my best teacher.
Tony Bennett -
It was good that Jim put this in writing, ... It puts Tony's mind at ease and certainly mine as well.
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It helps to know there is going to be continuity.
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
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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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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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I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.
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Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.
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I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.
Tony Bennett -
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.
Tony Bennett
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I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.
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"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.
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When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.
Tony Bennett -
I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.
Tony Bennett