Top 27 Ella Fitzgerald Quotes
#1. I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.
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#2. When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.
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#3. She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.
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#4. I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
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#5. Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
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#7. I know I'm no glamour girl, and it's not easy for me to get up in front of a crowd of people. It used to bother me a lot, but now I've got it figured out that God gave me this talent to use, so I just stand there and sing.
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#8. Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware there are things the human voice just doesn't do. She does them.
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#9. Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.
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#10. Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me 'Grandma Jazz.'
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#11. Coming through the years, and finding that I not only have just the fans of my day, but the young ones of today - that's what it means, it means it was worth all of it.
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#13. She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world.
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#14. A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside ... I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.
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#16. It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.
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#17. I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.
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#18. Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.
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#21. What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.
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#22. Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.
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#23. [On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.
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#24. Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.
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#25. The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.
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#26. I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is too much for me. Forgive me if I don't have all the words. Maybe I can sing it and you'll understand.
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