Ella Quotes

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 write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.

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.

I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.

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.

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

Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.

The premieres are, kind of exciting, especially to Ella, who loves limousines.

When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.

The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.