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You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.

Ella Fitzgerald

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.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Give Up Inspirational Love Thinking Wrong Yourself
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.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Forgiveness Love Myself Need Understand
I don’t want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Better Myself Sing Talk Wrong
I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Myself Steal
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.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Exercise Ideas Myself Refuse Sing Thinking
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.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Day Fans Finding Myself Worth
She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Fame Herself Sing Time
It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Count Yourself
Listen to her voice, don’t look at her.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Herself Listening Sight Voice
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

Children Cute Myself Thinking
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 FITZGERALD

Easy Myself People Sing Stand Talent
You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Myself Romance
Sometimes when we’re flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Myself Place Song Time Travel
Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It’s no big secret. It’s the way I feel.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Be Yourself Fashion Feeling Myself Style
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
ELLA FITZGERALD

Better Music Singing
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 FITZGERALD

Affair Greatness Love Myself People Work

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