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.
I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.
I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.
What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.
I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.
Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.
That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.
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