12 Quotes by Cab Calloway
- What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
- A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
- We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
- We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
- That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
- 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.
- He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
- Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
- 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.
- At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
- Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
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