No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

Few people know how to be old.

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.