Fitzgerald Quotes

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.

The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.