Cab Calloway Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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