Creativity Quote by Ella Fitzgerald

A lesser performer treats singing as a skill; Ella Fitzgerald treats it as an appetite. "The only thing better than singing is more singing" lands like a punchline, but it doubles as a manifesto: art isn’t a mountain you summit, it’s a condition you want to stay inside. The line is deceptively simple because it refuses the prestige narrative - the idea that greatness is proven by restraint, rarity, or suffering. For Fitzgerald, the reward isn’t applause, legacy, or even perfection. It’s the act itself, repeated until it becomes oxygen.

The subtext is especially rich coming from a vocalist who made "more" into an aesthetic. Her scat singing wasn’t just virtuosity; it was permission to keep going past the lyric, past the plotted architecture of a song, into a space where sound thinks faster than words. "More singing" is also a quiet argument against the gatekeepers of taste: against the notion that a proper singer knows when to stop, when to be tasteful, when to yield to the band or the arrangement. She’s choosing abundance over scarcity.

Context matters: Fitzgerald built her career in an era that demanded polish from women performers and imposed tight boundaries on Black artistry. Her catalog - from swing to songbook standards - is proof that repetition can be liberation. Each "more" is another chorus, another chance to rewrite who gets to take up space, and for how long.