"I'm not staying contemporary for the big record companies, I don't follow the latest fashions. I never sing a song that's badly written. In the 1920s and '30s, there was a renaissance in music that was the equivalent of the artistic Renaissance. Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and others just created the best songs that had ever been written. These are classics, and finally they're not being treated as light entertainment. This is classical music."
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As quoted in "Tony Bennett says a key to his continued success is being true to the audience" by Tim Clodfelter, in Winston-Salem Journal (5 September 2010)
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Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto, August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023) was an American popular music, standards and jazz singer.
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