Cab Calloway Quotes.
He was a silly guy. Out – do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
What opera isn’t violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can’t
A phoenix ain’t nuthin’ but a burd.
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.
It’s very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn’t there. And I don’t blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any
And then there’s my Grandson: He’s certainly got the music together, there’s just no question about it.
What opera isn’t violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can’t.
Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
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
It’s very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn’t there. And I don’t blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good
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.
My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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!
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That’s all. They synchronize very – you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that’s a rough job.
