Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ethel Waters

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

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.

Estelle

I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.

Kenneth Gross

Ella has had her share of hard knocks. She knows first-hand what pain feels like.

Ella Fitzgerald

American Masters: Ella Fitzgerald - Something To Live For,

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, actually, on cassette tapes.

John Nichols

Our media seem to be waiting for Fitzgerald to do all the work. What if during Watergate we left things up to Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox?

Tom Farnquist

The legend still seems to be growing. I'm surprised the Fitzgerald is still as popular as it is.

Lord Byron

Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I not sing?

Robert Littell

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

Swae Lee

Man, I listened Nas and B.I.G growing up. I listened to both of them when I was younger for sure.

Tessa Thompson

I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.

Dan Quayle

We've been in your home, we've been on your farm, we've been in your workplace. We have listened to you. We have talked with you,

John Orton

We set up a wiretapping operation in a flophouse where we listened to their conversations, which were in German, and then translated and recorded the conversations of the Nazi spies,

Carly Simon

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

Saint Ignatius

Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.

Charlie Puth

I listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records.

Dennis Brown

You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on... one take or two take.

will.i.am

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

David Naughton

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Bryan Batt

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

Casey Abrams

I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.

Louis C. K.

Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me.

Edward Hoagland

No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

David Duchovny

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

Lisi Harrison

Is this place called Virgins? Well, I shouldn't be here! -Nina