Cab Calloway

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

— Cab Calloway

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

— Cab Calloway

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

— Cab Calloway

Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.

— Cab Calloway

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

— Cab Calloway

We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.

— Cab Calloway

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.

— Cab Calloway

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

— Cab Calloway

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

— Cab Calloway

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

— Cab Calloway

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

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That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago…

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You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only…

— Cab Calloway

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is.…

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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that…

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The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they…

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You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What…

— Cab Calloway

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the…

— Cab Calloway

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the…

— Cab Calloway

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't…

— Cab Calloway

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

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Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And,…

— Cab Calloway

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut…

— Cab Calloway