161 Quotes by Tony Bennett

The biggest message I've given our team, and I think it's really important, is first of all, no one can take away what happened last year. It's obviously a fun year, a terrific year. But I think a big mistake would be to try to compare themselves or ourselves to last year's team. I think the key really is, and I told them this: for you as a group, you're a different team.

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.

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.

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.

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

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

What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.