Cab Calloway quotes

Cab Calloway was an American jazz singer, bandleader, and entertainer, noted for his energetic stage presence and scat singing. His work with the Cotton Club orchestra and hits like "Minnie the Moocher" helped define the swing era. He became a pioneering figure in popularizing jazz and influencing generations of musicians. Here are 11 of his quotes:

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)

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

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

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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

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

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Occupation: American Musician
Born: December 25, 1907
Died: November 18, 1994
Quotes count: 11

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