Listen to her voice, don’t look at her.
ELLA FITZGERALDThe fabulous places I’ve been, wonderful things that’ve happened, great people I’ve met ought to make a story.
More Ella Fitzgerald Quotes
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It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.
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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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Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.
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I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
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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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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’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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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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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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What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.
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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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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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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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