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.
ELLA FITZGERALDWhen I’m on stage I feel at home
More Ella Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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Music is the universal language. It brings people closer together.
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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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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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Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
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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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The only thing better than singing is more singing.
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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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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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It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.
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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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What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.
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Listen to her voice, don’t look at her.
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You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.
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