You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.
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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Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It’s no big secret. It’s the way I feel.
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I think I do better when I sing.
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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 I’m on stage I feel at home
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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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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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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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She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.
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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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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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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 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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It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.
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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.
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