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.
ELLA FITZGERALDI don’t want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.
More Ella Fitzgerald Quotes
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She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.
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I think I do better when I sing.
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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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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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Music is the universal language. It brings people closer together.
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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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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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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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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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What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.
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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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Sometimes when we’re flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.
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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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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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