I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course,… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones. — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness. — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough. — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free. — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience. — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it. — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
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… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
