It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.
ELLA FITZGERALDShe 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.
More Ella Fitzgerald Quotes
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Music is the universal language. It brings people closer together.
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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. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
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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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When I’m on stage I feel at home
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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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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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I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
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You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.
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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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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.
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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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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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