Ella Fitzgerald Inspirational Quotes

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.

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

It really was a whole generation who were listening to Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins, James Moody, Fats Navarro and, a little bit later on, Mongo Santamaría and Chuck Berry, and these dozen or so guys gave them a voice. They led the way. They wrote what a whole generation wanted to read. The time was right and they seized the day by writing about their lives. They travelled, they got into scrapes, they got arrested, they got wasted … and they wrote about it. Isn’t that something?

Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

Speaking of the great jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald– Here was a Black woman popularizing urban songs often written by immigrant Jews to a national audience of predominantly white Christians.