Ella Fitzgerald Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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

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

Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Trivia

Ella made a cameo appearance in the 1980's television drama The White Shadow:

Already blinded by the effects of diabetes, Ella had both her legs amputated in 1993.

There is a statue of Ella in the Amtrak/Metro-North Railroad station in Yonkers.

Ella is entombed at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California - Sunset Memorial Garden Mausoleum, Second Floor, Sanctuary of the Bells, Crypt 1063.

Ella was awarded the `National Medal of Art` by President Ronald Regan.

Her adopted son, Ray Brown Jr., was in fact her nephew.