I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

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.

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

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned.

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.

Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.