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TONY BENNETT - TONY BENNETT: 'AMERICA IS CULTURALLY VOID'
Legendary singer TONY BENNETT has slammed his home country of America for not contributing anything other than jazz music to world art and culture. The IF I RULED THE WORLD crooner feels that Europe and Asia offer far more culturally than America does. Bennett says, "I have travelled around the world to Asia and Europe. They show you what they have contributed to the world. The British show you theatre, the Italians show you music and art, the French show you cooking and painting, and the Germans show you science. "The only thing that the United States, which is still a young country, has contributed culturally to the world is jazz - elongated improvisation. It's tragic." And Bennett feels that Americans don't even appreciate the impact of jazz in popular culture. He says, "Fifty years from now people will be bowing to DIZZY GILLESPIE and CHARLIE PARKER, just like impressionist painters like MONET, who were starving in their day. The Americans don't even know what they have come up with."
22/08/2006 07:36
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jdaw1968 
( 1)
posted on 26/08/2006 02:51
What Tony says is so typical from Eurocentric elitist that tend to live in
Manhatten. Where do I start? Rock and Roll, Blues, Jazz, Hip Hop, Country and
Western, Coybow Chic, Frank Lloyd Write, Gorgia O'keefe, the longest running
government on the face of the planet, Hollywood, wow. I guess if you don't
drink dry martini's and sit in lounges all day you are not culture. Sad to see
so many people that jump on the anti-American is fashionabl band wagon these
days. Oh and we saved western europe and asia at least a couple times from its
own destruction last century. But we listen to Hank Williams we don't have
culture. Bunk.
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uncle sambo ( 2)
posted on 17/02/2008 23:20
Come on Tony dude,like, we invented the wheel and stuff lol!
Europe sucks!
You do the meth!
Rutherford was secretly American when he split the atom and no-other contry had freedom
until the late 1960s. US Segregation is a vicios rumor put out by commie frenchies.
We won the war withot help from the the Brits, Canadians or the Soviets! It's all
true and on this comment page. Lol dude
