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 FITZGERALDSome kids in Italy call me ‘Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don’t call me ‘Grandma Jazz.’
More Ella Fitzgerald Quotes
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Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
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I think I do better when I sing.
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When I’m on stage I feel at home
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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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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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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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What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.
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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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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 stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
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Music is the universal language. It brings people closer together.
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She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.
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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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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