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Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

Ella Fitzgerald

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Block Distance Herself Place
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.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Creativity Grace Person World
Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Better Herself Music Myself Song Sound
Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It’s no big secret. It’s the way I feel.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Be Yourself Fashion Feeling Myself Style
Music is the universal language. It brings people closer together.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Language Music People Togetherness Universe
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.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Exercise Ideas Myself Refuse Sing Thinking
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.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Affair Greatness Love Myself People Work
I don’t want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Better Myself Sing Talk Wrong
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.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Easy Myself People Sing Stand Talent
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.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Herself Human Known Time Voice
When I’m on stage I feel at home
ELLA FITZGERALD

Feeling Home One Liner Stage
Some kids in Italy call me ‘Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don’t call me ‘Grandma Jazz.’
ELLA FITZGERALD

Children Cute Myself Thinking
You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Myself Romance
Listen to her voice, don’t look at her.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Herself Listening Sight Voice
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.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Myself Realize Time
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 FITZGERALD

Day Fans Finding Myself Worth

Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

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