Quotes from Tony Bennett

I'll never retire.

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.

I still feel that I can get better somehow. And I search for it all of the time.

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

My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

When you get older, you don't have to eat a lot. I get my rest and sleep very well at night. It keeps me very balanced.

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

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.

Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.

I have grown to appreciate the power of believing in myself and of always having faith in myself. I rarely look back; instead, I always look forward. There is so much of life that we miss when we wallow in regret.

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 think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality, it's a God-given gift that just certain individuals have.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.

When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you're right there at that moment. It's true to reality. And the closer it gets, once it gets too technical, it becomes very tinny to hear notes. It doesn't sound right. It has to be natural.

I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.

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.

I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43.