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And then there's my Grandson: ...

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.

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It's very difficult to photogr...

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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A movie and a stage show are 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

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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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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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Everybody did something. It wa...

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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Pass that thing, slightly, lig...

Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.

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That's what George wrote! He w...

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.

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We usually never got out of th...

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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You don't think it was because...

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

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

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Jazz was not only built in the...

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

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Everybody came. Everybody came...

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

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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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Everybody did something. It wa...

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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Charleston was a good town. It...

Charleston was a good town. It was a nice town. I played there years ago before Porgy and Bess. And I think the conception wasn't bad. It was good.

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Bubbles was a very good dancer...

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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At times as a performer they s...

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

Cab Calloway 03.03.2018 03:03:03 39 quotes

A movie and a stage show are 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.

Cab Calloway 03.03.2018 03:03:03 39 quotes

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

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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