Tony Bennett Quotes

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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.

  Tony Bennett

  Passion, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Tony Bennett

  Passion, Doing What You Love, Work You Love

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

  Tony Bennett

  Dream, Get Better, Awful

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2014

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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.

  Tony Bennett

  Country, Gun, Germany

  "Tony Bennett: Without Gun Control, U.S. May Turn Into Nazi Germany". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2013.

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

  Tony Bennett

  Goal, Creative, Truth And Beauty

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• Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what better reason do you need to not tolerate any form of violence against another human being?

  Tony Bennett

  Race, Together, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Tony Bennett

  Taken, People, Thieves

  "The new cool cat on the block" by Dino Scatena, www.smh.com.au. April 16, 2004.

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

  Tony Bennett

  Art, Creative

  Tony Bennett, Mitch Albom (2013). “Tony Bennett: Life is A Gift”, p.106, Omnibus Press

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

  Tony Bennett

  Blessed, Mean, Blessing

  Tony Bennett (2012). “The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett”, p.1890, Simon and Schuster

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

  Tony Bennett

  Life, Knows, Asks

  Tony Bennett (2012). “The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett”, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Tony Bennett

  Thinking Of You, Way, Looks

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• To work is to feel alive.

  Tony Bennett

  Music, Alive, Jazz

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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.

  Tony Bennett

  Singing, Jazz, Teach

  "Tony Bennett: His Life in Art & Song". Interview with Roseanna Vitro, jazztimes.com. February 5, 2014.

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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.

  Tony Bennett

  Dog, Song, Teacher

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• I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.

  Tony Bennett

  Quality, Looks, Look Up

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

  Tony Bennett

  Paint, Whole Life, Draws

  "Tony Bennett: The musician and the artist". www.today.com. September 23, 2007.

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

  Tony Bennett

  Country, World, Lines

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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.

  Tony Bennett

  Moving, Past, Who I Am

  Tony Bennett (2012). “The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett”, p.1889, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.

  Tony Bennett

  New York, Growing Up, Memories

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.

  Tony Bennett

  Should Have, Empathy, Understanding

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• There's always something every night that I learn from reacting to what the audience is reacting to. You learn what to leave out, what to put in, if you need a little more comedy or more drama.

  Tony Bennett

  Drama, Night, Needs

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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.

  Tony Bennett

  Style, Trying, Hitting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I always feel the audience is my best teacher.

  Tony Bennett

  Teacher, Best Teacher, Feels

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

  Tony Bennett

  Creative, Busier, Ifs

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• I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.

  Tony Bennett

  Travel, Morning, Stars

  Song: (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco, 1962

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