Ella Fitzgerald Quotes, Thoughts and Images

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see

What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

Listen to her voice, don't look at her.

You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me 'Grandma Jazz.'

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.

I think I do better when I sing.

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.

Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.

All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang.

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.