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Tony Bennett
American
August 3, 1926
Musician
I'll never retire.
Tony Bennett
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Never
Retire
To work is to feel alive.
Tony Bennett
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Work
Feel
Alive
If something is good, it's always good. You don't have to change it.
Tony Bennett
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Good
Change
You
I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.
Tony Bennett
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Nature
You
How
Every show is different. The public has always been nice to me. I'm fortunate that way.
Tony Bennett
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Me
Always
Been
More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.
Tony Bennett
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Me
Like
More
Every day feels like just starting out because I still have so much more to learn.
Tony Bennett
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Like
Just
Because
I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.
Tony Bennett
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Other
Through
Different
As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn.
Tony Bennett
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You
Things
Lot
Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole. He just let them sing whatever they wanted, and it became the best record company in America.
Tony Bennett
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Best
Just
Them
Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off.
Tony Bennett
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Great
Birthday
Me
I love entertaining people; I strive to make them feel good, and they make me feel wonderful. To explain it simply, I like what I do, and my ambition is to get better as I get older. That's really what I'm all about.
Tony Bennett
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Good
People
Me
In America, at the beginning of talkies, they pulled Fred Astaire from the theaters and put him on the screen and had all of these great composers write songs for him. They call it the Great American Songbook; I call it the Fred Astaire Songbook because they were written for him.
Tony Bennett
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Great
Because
Had
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.
Tony Bennett
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Great
You
People
I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.
Tony Bennett
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Time
Work
Food
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Orleans. And I'm really a jazz singer. I was impressed with Elvis - he was the handsomest guy I ever met in my life, and a very nice person, too. But the music doesn't impress me.
Tony Bennett
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Music
Me
Really
