"Jazz was not only built in the minds……" — Cab Calloway
"Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones."
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Cab Calloway
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23 Quotes by Cab Calloway
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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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I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the…
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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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When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
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I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags…
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Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart…
— Maya Angelou
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People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is…
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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands…
— Mark Twain
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I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.
— Janet Morris
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They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink…
— Aristotle
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The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on…
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Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner…
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We will never-and I mean never-turn our backs on our employees.
— Howard Schultz
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People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you…
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