Quotes About Cab Calloway

#1. They're all the rage, Cab Calloway wears one.

Spike Milligan

#2. I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

Billy Eckstine

#3. I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

Wyclef Jean

#4. From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

Cat Power

#5. I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life.

Kirk Kerkorian

#6. 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.

Cab Calloway

#7. 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.

Cab Calloway

#8. 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.

Cab Calloway

#9. The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

Gerald M. Loeb

#10. when TV like the radio before it has been swallowed alive by the next big thing. My stories will still be here, the books I have written will still be here, and with them like those before me, I will live forever as long as one person reads one page of my world.

Shawn Hilton

#11. Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.

Cab Calloway

#12. I stood up and asked, "What in the world is wrong with leading?

Gloria Feldt

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

Cab Calloway

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

Cab Calloway

#15. 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.

Cab Calloway

#16. 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

#17. 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.

Cab Calloway

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

Cab Calloway

#19. My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

Cab Calloway

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

Cab Calloway

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

Cab Calloway

#22. I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid ...

Dana Gould

#23. 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

#24. 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.

Cab Calloway

#25. Dawn, Cillian. That is how long I'll wait for your apology. For you to remember you were nothing but a puppet king who forgot he was on strings.

J.J. McAvoy

#26. Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

Cab Calloway

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

Cab Calloway

#28. My heart is filled with profound gratitude to God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

Cab Calloway

#30. At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

Cab Calloway

#31. A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Cab Calloway

#32. My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

Luke Goss

#33. I think Luc was right," he added when they were out of earshot. "I can hardly take you out anymore." "I just took out a vamp twice my weight while wearing a cocktail dress and three-inch heels. I think I deserve some credit for that.

Chloe Neill

#34. Toronto I've worked in so many times so you kind of just know every store, every hotel, every - it's really close to New York so it's awesome for my children so if I have to go home for two days it doesn't take very much time. Except for Air Canada. Air Canada is the worst part.

Mary-Louise Parker