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Top 20 Ella Fitzgerald Quotes (2025 Update)

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.”

1. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

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Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.”

2. “It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

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Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “The only thing better than singing is more singing.”

3. “The only thing better than singing is more singing.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “I think I do better when I sing.”

5. “I think I do better when I sing.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.”

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

— Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “The fabulous places I’ve been, wonderful things that’ve happened, great people I’ve met ought to make a story.”

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

— Ella Fitzgerald

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Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “When I’m on stage I feel at home.”

8. “When I’m on stage I feel at home.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It’s no big secret. It’s the way I feel.”

9. “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

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “I don’t want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.”

10. “I don’t want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.”

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

— Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “Listen to her voice, don’t look at her.”

14. “Listen to her voice, don’t look at her.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.”

15. “You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

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Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.”

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

— Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better.”

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

— Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “Sometimes when we’re flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.”

21. “Sometimes when we’re flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.”

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

— Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

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