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 FITZGERALDI 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.
More Ella Fitzgerald Quotes
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When I’m on stage I feel at home
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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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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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Listen to her voice, don’t look at her.
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Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
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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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She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.
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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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Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.
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The only thing better than singing is more singing.
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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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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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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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Music is the universal language. It brings people closer together.
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It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.
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