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My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things. — Tony Bennett

Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was a special moment for me. — Marilyn Manson

You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way. — Eddie Money

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. — Tony Bennett

The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people. — Tony Bennett

I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli. — Kat Dahlia

I've never worked a day in my life. — Tony Bennett

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

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool. — Bill Kurtis

I am fascinated by this partnership between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It's magic and I love it. — William J. Clinton

No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned. — Tony Bennett

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

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world. — 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

Never treat the audience disrespectfully. — Tony Bennett

I still feel that I can get better somehow. And I search for it all of the time. — Tony Bennett

If something is good, it's always good. You don't have to change it. — Tony Bennett

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

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong. — Tony Bennett

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know. — Tony Bennett

I'll never retire. — Tony Bennett

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. — Tony Bennett

Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent. — Tony Bennett

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

Gaga is a gorgeous singer, and when she sings a great ballad, I get goose bumps. — 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 loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique. — Tony Bennett

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

Every show is different. The public has always been nice to me. I'm fortunate that way. — Tony Bennett

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art. — Tony Bennett

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

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. — 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

I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent. — Tony Bennett

Life teaches you how to live it - if you live long enough. — Tony Bennett

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older. — Tony Bennett

Singing is a gift. — Tony Bennett

It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else. — Tony Bennett

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

If you are creative, you get busier as you get older. — Tony Bennett

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do — Tony Bennett

It helps to know there is going to be continuity. — Tony Bennett

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for. — Tony Bennett

I've been very fortunate. I'm doing what I love, and I'm getting away with it, you know? — Tony Bennett

To work is to feel alive. — Tony Bennett

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed. — 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

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs. — Tony Bennett

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life. — Tony Bennett

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. — Tony Bennett

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life. — Tony Bennett

The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized. — Tony Bennett

Every day feels like just starting out because I still have so much more to learn. — Tony Bennett

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

I take care of myself. I work out three times a week. I have a trainer, and we just work out for an hour. — Tony Bennett

As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn. — Tony Bennett

Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii. — Tony Bennett