38 Inspiring and motivational quotes by Tony Bennett

Looking for some inspiration in your life then quotes by Tony Bennett can help you with that, here I am going to share all the popular quotes of Tony Bennett.

Here are the 38 quotes by Tony Bennett:

1. "It's a great thing that the United States has given the rest of the world - no other country has given such great popular music to the Far East and Europe. When I play those great countries, a lot of times, the audience starts singing the songs with me. They know them. They love them." - Tony Bennett

2. "I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43. I'd like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you've become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better." - Tony Bennett

3. "Performers should really go to the best schools, like Lady Gaga, you know, she went to NYU and had great teachers... It's best to really study your technique as much as you possibly can so you can have a long career instead of a quick one that's a failure." - Tony Bennett

4. "No matter what age you are, there's a lot of room for learning." - Tony Bennett

5. "When Sinatra said, 'For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer I've ever heard,' it changed my career completely. He was my best friend, and I was his best friend... but I was never part of the Rat Pack." - Tony Bennett

6. "I'll call it a day when I die. It's a wonderful occupation for me. I've never worked a day in my life." - Tony Bennett

7. "I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs. Today, record companies are failing because they are putting their accent just on the young, and I think that's rather silly." - Tony Bennett

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

9. "Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for." - Tony Bennett

10. "I've never worked a day in my life." - Tony Bennett

11. "I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation and making sure that I'm hitting the notes right on the head... and having it appear quite effortless." - Tony Bennett

12. "To me, life is a gift, and it's a blessing to just be alive. And each person should learn what a gift it is to be alive no matter how tough things get." - Tony Bennett

13. "To work is to feel alive." - Tony Bennett

14. "I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world." - Tony Bennett

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

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

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

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

19. "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

20. "The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period. It stopped in 1950." - Tony Bennett

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

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

23. "The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized." - Tony Bennett

24. "I'll never retire." - Tony Bennett

25. "Singing is a gift." - Tony Bennett

26. "I'd like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you've become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better." - Tony Bennett

27. "The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people." - Tony Bennett

28. "My whole premise has been, right from the beginning, that it would take me a lifetime to learn to explain myself as an artist. As you grow older, you learn what to do and what to leave out. You kind of simplify your work and get the same thing done with fewer strokes. It's pretty interesting to me." - Tony Bennett

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

30. "I was taught never to compromise: to never sing a cheap song. I never look down at the audience and think that they are ignorant or think that I'm more intelligent than they are. To think otherwise is totally incorrect and runs contrary to everything I was raised to believe." - Tony Bennett

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

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

33. "I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause." - Tony Bennett

34. "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

35. "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

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

37. "Nobody has communicated with the public more than Lady Gaga. Ever. I trust the audience, and I'm very impressed. As far as they're concerned, she's part of their family. The only guy who ever did that was Bing Crosby, years ago." - Tony Bennett

38. "I had the greatest time of my life in England for a couple of years, and Robert Farnon made some of the best music I've ever been around." - Tony Bennett

Here I tried to share all the popular quotes of Tony Bennett. I hope you will love these quotes.