Tony Bennett Quotes

I've always believed you should sing songs you can really put yourself into. I think the emotion you put into it is just as important as singing the notes.

Music is about connecting with people on a personal level and doing that one set of ears at a time.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

When you're watching a movie and find yourself getting emotional, it's because you're bringing something personal to the images. It's the same thing with acting. You're bringing the essence of your core emotional being to that moment.

'If You Could Read My Mind' is a different experience every time I sing it. It's just that kind of a song.

Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to continue making music from her perspective.

'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.

Singing from the heart is my only goal.

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

Hopefully when you listen to a song, you can say, 'That's me,' or 'That's someone I know' - you relate to it in a way that's cathartic.

The main thing for all of us was having a ballad, a slower song. Finally, they get to hear more of a vulnerable side to us! We didn't really have that in 'Reflection,' and that's something we all fought for.

For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song, it's what you see.

I connect better with music when I see the people singing it.

I don't think the singers take it as seriously as we used to. The words, the meaning, the phrasing, the feeling of the song. They see the words, they know the tune and they just sing it.

I feel like my objective in music is to take a hammer and nail and chip away a piece of my heart and give it to someone, so I feel, with merch, it's a tangible parallel of that.

I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.