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The premieres are, kind of exciting, especially to Ella, who loves limousines.

- Kelly Preston

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

- Lena Horne

His legal name was Roy Fitzgerald. When meeting John F. Kennedy, the American president remarked: "They say all Fitzgeralds are related." to which Hudson replied, "I guess that makes Ella happy."

- Rock Hudson

What was so upsetting was I didn`t really know anything about diabetes except that Ella Fitzgerald lost her legs and later died from it.

- Della Reese

It`s so hard to hear their story. I felt sad that they lost everything, but they are so happy, especially Ella.

- Heather Thomas

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

- Ethel Waters

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

- Johnny Mathis

So he comes in one day and tells us they went and got her new shoes and when Ella was measured, she was like three sizes bigger than the shoes they had been squeezing her feet into, ... She was walking like a day later. He was so embarrassed.

- Barksdale Thompson