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Cab Calloway was an American jazz singer, bandleader, and actor, born on December 25, 1907, and died on November 18, 1994. He was known for his unique performance style and iconic trombone playing, and was a significant figure in jazz during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Famous Cab Calloway Quotes

“Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.”

Music Jazz Clubs Cotton

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“People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.”

Mind Music Ordinary Built Jazz Jazz Music Great Ones

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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!”

Thinking Men Black Differences White Green Making A Difference Songwriting White Man

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

Together Grandson

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“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”

Ifs Has Beens Done Courses Difficult Company Originals Blame Photograph Very Good Opera Messed Up Gershwin

Author:Cab Calloway

“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”

Want Two Different Shows Can Do Cutting Stage Scene Different Things

Author:Cab Calloway

“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”

Thinking Voice Differences Color Singers Opera Marvelous Catfish

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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”

Two Happens Names Violence And Love Things Happen Violent Two Things Opera

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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”

Fun Saws Entertaining Segregation Reefs

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“Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.”

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

Guy Effort Stupid Silly All Time Other Guys

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

Names Audience Clubs Advertising Cotton Advertising Agencies

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“You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.”

People Mind Sometimes Forget Ordinary Built Jazz Dukes Great Ones

Book:Of Minnie the Moocher and Me

Source: Of Minnie the Moocher and Me

“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.”

Knows Country Courses Company Nobody Knows European Countries Why Change

Author:Cab Calloway

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

Morning Five Four Clock Rough Every Morning Fog

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“A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.”

Definitions Phoenix

Author:Cab Calloway

About the Author

Born: December 25, 1907
Died: November 18, 1994
Known for: Singer
Quotes: 16

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