You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that 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
People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians. — 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
Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones. — Cab Calloway Copy Share
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
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
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
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
We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free. — Cab Calloway Copy Share
My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience. — Cab Calloway Copy Share
And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it. — Cab Calloway Copy Share
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
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… — Cab Calloway Copy Share
He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times. — Cab Calloway Copy Share
That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course,… — Cab Calloway Copy Share
