"You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie……" — Cab Calloway
"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 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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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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When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
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Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart…
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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…
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I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.
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They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink…
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The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred,…
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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.
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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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