Cab Calloway Quotes
People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.
And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.
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
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't
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!
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.
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.
