Tony Bennett > Quotes

“Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.”
― Tony Bennett

“Anyone can learn from Lincoln’s enormous largeness of spirit. Those of us who are performers can look at the public utterance for which he is best remembered and take our own cue from Abe Lincoln: Don’t feel that you have to show people everything you can do. Just show them the best you can do.”
― Tony Bennett, Just Getting Started

“Alongside the wide participation in everyday reading of newspapers and magazines, the era of 'mass reading' of books that characterised the period from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century might be coming to an end, replaced by the emergence of a numerically small but influential 'reading class' characterised by voracious participation and high levels of education.”
― Tony Bennett, Culture, Class, Distinction