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Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. He is also a painter, having created works under the name Anthony Benedetto that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York.

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My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

Creative, Express, Goal, Truth, Truth And Beauty

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.

Game, Games, Song, Trying, Version

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

Changed, Cities, Citizens, Life, Song

Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.

Billie, Holliday, Louis, Music, Romantic, Style

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Holiday, Know, Primitive, Records, Sophisticated, Today

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.

Jazz, Nobody, Singing, Teach

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

Doing What You Love, Follow, Life, Passion, Work You Love

I always feel the audience is my best teacher.

Audience, Best Teacher, Feels, Teacher

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.

Careers, Composers, Owe, Quality, Song, Written

I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.

Quality, Looks, Look Up, Audience, Look

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.

Able, Make, People, Singing

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.

Believability, Lived, Song, Stories, Tell, Trying

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

Contributed, Country, Line, Lines, World

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.

Careers, Ninety Nine, Sold, Success, Time, World

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.

Contract, Give, Giving, Music, Names, Says

We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.

Artist, Artists, Demand, Job, Jobs, Money

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

Benedetto, Blessed, Blessing, Mean

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

Busier, Creative, Ifs, Older

I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

Acting, Actor, Actors, Method, Singing

Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.

Cities, City, Funny, Hawaii, Opportunity, Paint

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