"A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd." — Cab Calloway

"A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd."

— Cab Calloway

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23 Quotes by Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote…
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…
A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change…
I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the…
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…
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…
You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was…
That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about…

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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a… — Hannah Arendt
Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every… — Michele Bachmann
I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the… — Michele Bachmann
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real… — Jean Baudrillard
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts… — Saul Bellow
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. — Alan Bennett
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad… — Wendell Berry
Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the… — Donald Berwick

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