Cab Calloway famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
-- Cab Calloway

#Music #Mind #Ordinary
Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
-- Cab Calloway

#Music #Clubs #Cotton
We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
-- Cab Calloway

#Morning #Fog #Four
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.
-- Cab Calloway

#Country #Nobody Knows #Company
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.
-- Cab Calloway

#People #Mind #Ordinary
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
-- Cab Calloway

#Names #Clubs #Cotton
He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
-- Cab Calloway

#Silly #Effort #Guy
Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.
-- Cab Calloway
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
-- Cab Calloway

#Fun #Saws #Segregation
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't
-- Cab Calloway

#Names #Two #And Love
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
-- Cab Calloway

#Thinking #Color #Voice
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
-- Cab Calloway

#Cutting #Two #Different
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
-- Cab Calloway

#Done #Opera #Blame
And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.
-- Cab Calloway

#Together #Grandson
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!
-- Cab Calloway

#Men #Thinking #White
A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.
-- Cab Calloway

#Phoenix #Definitions

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