Tony Bennett

If you follow your passions, you’ll never work a day in your life.

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

To work is to feel alive.

One of the advantages of growing older is you learn what to leave out.

I’ll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I’m always writing music.

I learn something new every day.

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch and really personal and deeply felt music.

Miles Davis and John Coltrane were so cool, if alive today global warming wouldn’t be an issue.

If a player is pushing their ability, a certain amount of failure is inevitable. Maybe even desirable.

Jazz music is the real deal.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it’s beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

Don’t give up trying to do what you really want. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

Check out the albums, … Check out the live performances. That’s the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.

You don’t know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Without jazz, life would be a mistake.