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As a young boy, I did a lot o...

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

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The young people look great o...

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 52 quotes

Luckily for his audiences, Be...

Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.

Tony Bennett 52 quotes

No-one will ever sound as goo...

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

Tony Bennett 52 quotes

I attended the High School of...

I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

Tony Bennett 52 quotes

I have been very fortunate to...

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.

Tony Bennett 52 quotes

I grew up in an era where the...

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.

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I want to try to prove that a...

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 52 quotes

I'll call it a day when I die...

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 52 quotes

Performers should really go t...

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.

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It's a great thing that the U...

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.

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When Sinatra said, 'For my mo...

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.

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I was taught never to comprom...

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.

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More than anybody else I'd li...

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

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The high point for me in my c...

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.

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I study nature, and I realize...

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

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It sounds so simple, but if y...

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

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Never treat the audience disr...

Never treat the audience disrespectfully.

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I love entertaining people; I...

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.

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In America, at the beginning ...

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 52 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....