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.
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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You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.
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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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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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I think I do better when I 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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Music is the universal language. It brings people closer together.
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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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Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.
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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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Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
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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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Listen to her voice, don’t look at her.
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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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When I’m on stage I feel at home
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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.
ELLA FITZGERALD