Cab Calloway Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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