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

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.

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

I've never worked a day in my life.

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

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

To work is to feel alive.

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

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.

Never treat the audience disrespectfully.

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

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

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

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

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

I'll never retire.

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

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

Gaga is a gorgeous singer, and when she sings a great ballad, I get goose bumps.

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.

I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Singing is a gift.

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

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

If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.

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

It helps to know there is going to be continuity.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized.

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

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

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

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