Cab Calloway Quotes

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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-doesn't make a difference!
• And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.
• 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 taking…
• A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene,…
• 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…
• What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't
• Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see.…
• Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.
• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
• Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
• 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…
• That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't…
• We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
• A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.
• Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
• Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
• My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
• At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
• 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
• Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he…

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