They keep telling this story like the dress walked in first, baby no, the voice did. by Ella Fitzgerald

Exactly: some people sell the ticket, some people make the ticket feel underdressed.

I never said I had the bigger notes, Ella, I said I knew how to make a room look expensive.

Norman, you say that like you weren’t grinning when the receipts turned into history.

I was the poster, Ella was the proof, and that is why everybody in the building was confused.

As the man who paid for the room, I can confirm both of you were impossible and somehow worth every cent.

The hardest part of managing Ella was explaining why the audience heard one song and started acting newly enlightened.