--- title: "1 Audience Life Quotes By Cab Calloway" description: "1 Audience Life quotes by Cab Calloway. Plus more from Cab Calloway and more Audience Life sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78a/cab-calloway-24275_audience_my-audience-was-my-life-what-i-did-and-h_1259816.png" --- > [My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/my-audience-was-my-life-what-i-did-and-how-i-did-it-was-all-for-my/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cab-calloway/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78a/cab-calloway-24275_audience_my-audience-was-my-life-what-i-did-and-h_1259816.png) ## More by Cab Calloway > [Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/bubbles-was-a-very-good-dancer-tremendous-dancer-he-was-one-of-our/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cab-calloway/) > [Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/pass-that-thing-slightly-lightly-and-politely/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cab-calloway/) > [Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/jazz-was-not-only-built-in-the-minds-of-the-great-ones-but-on-the/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/90-100-are-going-there-to-hear-the-singing-the-story-is-another-thing/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cab-calloway/) > [I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/i-think-it-was-just-an-opera-now-you-go-to-opera-you-expect-to-see/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cab-calloway/) > [What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/what-opera-isn-t-violent-two-things-happen-violence-and-love-and/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cab-calloway/) > [We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/we-usually-never-got-out-of-there-before-four-or-five-o-clock-in-the/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cab-calloway/) > [We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/we-didn-t-have-any-segregation-at-the-cotton-club-no-the-cotton-club/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cab-calloway/) > [A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/a-phoenix-ain-t-nuthin-but-a-burd/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cab-calloway/) > [My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/my-audience-was-my-life-what-i-did-and-how-i-did-it-was-all-for-my/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cab-calloway/) > [And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/and-then-there-s-my-grandson-he-s-certainly-got-the-music-together/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 Gershwins for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/it-s-very-difficult-to-photograph-an-opera-and-they-messed-up-on-it/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 make a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/you-don-t-think-it-was-because-a-white-man-wrote-it-a-black-man-wrote/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cab-calloway/) > [He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/he-was-a-silly-guy-out-do-the-other-guy-that-was-his-effort-at-all/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cab-calloway/) > [That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cab-calloway/that-s-what-george-wrote-he-wrote-it-why-change-it-there-was-this/) [Cab Calloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cab-calloway/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/audience-life/cab-calloway/#itemlist", "name": "1 Audience Life Quotes By Cab Calloway", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My audience was my life. 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