"I think it was just an opera. Now,……" — 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 was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were"
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Cab Calloway
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23 Quotes by Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway has 23 quotes on this site.
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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…
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And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.
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It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't…
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change…
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't
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Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no…
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Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the…
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You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was…
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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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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was…
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More Catfish Quotes
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one of 21 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We have fried catfish, country fried steak and cinnamon-roasted pork. We have collard greens, black-eyed peas, hush puppies, biscuits, sweet…
— Unknown Author
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It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly…
— Beryl Markham
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A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.
— Bruce Springsteen
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What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other…
— Preston Manning
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The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.
— Erk Russell
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Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around…
— Bootsy Collins
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Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber,…
— Paul Engle
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My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.
— Dolly Parton
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I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
— Edith Sitwell
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She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.
— Rick Riordan
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I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel…
— Edith Sitwell
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Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad…
— Janet Evanovich
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