"You don't think it was because a white……" — Cab Calloway
"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!"
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Cab Calloway
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23 Quotes by Cab Calloway
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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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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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