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 Read Quote
We didn’t have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free. Cab Calloway Read Quote
My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience. Cab Calloway Read Quote
What opera isn’t violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can’t. Cab Calloway Read Quote
We usually never got out of there before four or five o’clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough. Cab Calloway Read Quote
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club. Cab Calloway Read Quote