42 Quotes by Cab Calloway

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.