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.
ELLA FITZGERALDIt isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.
More Ella Fitzgerald Quotes
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Listen to her voice, don’t look at her.
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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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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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When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.
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When I’m on stage I feel at home
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I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
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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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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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You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.
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The only thing better than singing is more singing.
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What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.
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I’ve had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn’t work out. I don’t want to dwell on that and I don’t want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I’ve been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I’ve met – that ought to make a story.
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Music is the universal language. It brings people closer together.
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Sometimes when we’re flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.
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Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.
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