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"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."
"The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story."
"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."
"Whatever she does to my songs, she always makes them sound better."
"[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang."
"She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer."
"Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears, more and more do I realize that...I love Paris."
"I think I do better when I sing."
"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."
"When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph."
"Listen to her voice, don't look at her."
"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."
"Once, 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."
"Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom."