Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It’s no big secret. It’s the way I feel.
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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What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.
ELLA FITZGERALD -
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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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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When I’m on stage I feel at home
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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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Sometimes when we’re flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.
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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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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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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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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.
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I think I do better when I sing.
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You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.
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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.’
ELLA FITZGERALD