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I think it was just an opera....

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.

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Cab Calloway

Everybody did something. It w...

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

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Cab Calloway

Everybody that you could name...

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

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Cab Calloway

People sometimes forget that ...

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.

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Cab Calloway

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a...

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

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Cab Calloway

You don't think it was becaus...

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!

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Cab Calloway

A movie and a stage show are ...

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

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Cab Calloway

It's very difficult to photog...

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

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Cab Calloway

The only credit I can give th...

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.

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Cab Calloway

He was a silly guy. Out - do ...

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

Cab Calloway 39 quotes
Cab Calloway

I think it was just an opera....

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 39 quotes
Cab Calloway

90%, 100% are going there to ...

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

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Cab Calloway

You don't think it was becaus...

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! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.

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Cab Calloway

We usually never got out of t...

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

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Cab Calloway

Everybody did something. It w...

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 39 quotes
Cab Calloway

Bubbles was a very good dance...

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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Cab Calloway

We didn't have any segregatio...

We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.

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Cab Calloway

What opera isn't violent? Two...

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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Cab Calloway

A movie and a stage show are ...

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 39 quotes
Cab Calloway

It's very difficult to photog...

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.

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