The Only Thing Better Than Singing Is

I Guess What Everyone Wants More Than Anything Else Is To Be Loved. And To Know That You Loved Me For My Singing Is Too Much For Me. Forgive Me If I Don't Have All The Words. Maybe I Can Sing It And You'll Understand.

I Don't Want To Say The Wrong Thing, Which I Always Do. I Think I Do Better When I Sing.

A Lot Of Singers Think All They Have To Do Is Exercise Their Tonsils To Get Ahead. They Refuse To Look For New Ideas And New Outlets, So They Fall By The Wayside... I'm Going To Try To Find Out The New Ideas Before The Others Do.

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.

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.