The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.
Ella FitzgeraldI don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.
Ella FitzgeraldI'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 FitzgeraldOnce, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterwards we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don't know if it was the right thing to do—I asked her for her autograph.
Ella Fitzgerald