When I’m on stage I feel at home
ELLA FITZGERALDA 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.
More Ella Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.
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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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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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Listen to her voice, don’t look at her.
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I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
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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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Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
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It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.
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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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Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears, more and more do I realize that. I love Paris.
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You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.
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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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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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I think I do better when I sing.
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