Tony Bennett Quotes

In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided that that's really what I wanted to pursue as a career, and that's what I was going to study.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.

There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

I want to have a long career.

I go to The Brit School, which is where Adele, Amy Winehouse, and Jessie J went.

I always think about stuff I learned, in any scene. Juilliard taught me a lot.

In a way, Delhi has contributed in my journey to become a successful singer.

I want a long and healthy career.

You should know that you need talent, passion, and luck to be a singer.

I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.

I do not support that everyone has to be a trained classical singer to be able to sing in films but some sort of knowledge in classical space can take you to places.

All of my experiences as a singer will be of good use long into the future, when I get old enough to finally train others.

I went to college to make music and study music.

I got into cello in the fourth grade, and I played that for years. I adored playing it. I got an opera coach when I was 12 because I really wanted to learn how to sing properly. The only proper way to sing, I thought at that age, was opera.

My son is a professional musician now.

I grew up with great mentors in my life who helped me become the singer I am today.

My singing teacher said it would take three years before I could sing well enough to be accepted as a professional. They were wrong. It took me five years.

I went to college to study the piano and cello.