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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

~A. Scott Berg

Topics: About Away Book By The Time Developed Everything Fitzgerald Graduated Great Great Gatsby He High High School His Just Literally Mania Me Moved Moved On Night Novel Paradise Pillow Princeton Read School Side Slept Started Swept Tender Then Time Two Which Written Years

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I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.

~Al Jarreau

Topics: Able Access Any Audience Because Been Before Brought Crossed Did Done Easy Ella Fitzgerald George Give How How Much Important Jazz Know Lines Link Lots Me More Much People Pop Than Those Two Were Who World

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My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.

~Alison Moyet

Topics: Always Been Blues Closer Dealing Ella English Fact Fitzgerald Influenced Labels Led Led Zeppelin Major More Referred Shouting Singing Soul Style Than Torture Zeppelin

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When I heard Billie Holiday's voice, Nina Simone's and Ella Fitzgerald's - there was something about their voices to me that was such a different texture than what I was used to listening to at the time. Hearing those jazz voices were so different, and I think I just gravitated toward it.

~Andra Day

Topics: About Different Ella Fitzgerald Heard Hearing Holiday Jazz Just Listening Me Nina Something Texture Than Think Those Time Toward Used Voice Voices Were I Think

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The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

~Azar Nafisi

Topics: American American Dream Best Best Work Compromise Dream Dreaming Fitzgerald Great Great Gatsby How Literature May Reality Represent Scott Shows Suffer Tainted Us Work You

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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

~Baz Luhrmann

Topics: Age Fitzgerald Hip-Hop Jazz Living Now Phrase

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Fitzgerald was a modernist.

~Baz Luhrmann

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Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Bunch Could Down Eclectic Enough Entire Fitzgerald Hand Her Holding Inclined Literary Nine Novels Output Shelf Single Stretched Take Thin Were You

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Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Among Because British Computer Economy England Enjoyed Family Favorite Favorites Fitzgerald Instead Novels Our Pen Travel Were Words Writers Written

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I always liked Nat King Cole. I always wanted to go my own way, but I always favoured other singers like Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald - I loved Ella Fitzgerald. There are so many of them. Nina Simone was one of my favourites - Johnny Mathis.

~Billy Paul

Topics: Always Ella Favourites Fitzgerald Go Johnny King Like Liked Loved Many My Own Nina Nina Simone Other Own Sarah Singers Them Wanted Washington Way

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