Top 10 Cab Calloway Quotes (2024 Update)

Cab Calloway Quote: “Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.”

1. “Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.”

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Cab Calloway Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Cab Calloway Quote: “Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.”

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

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Cab Calloway Quote: “Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.”

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

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

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

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Cab Calloway Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Cab Calloway Quote: “He was a silly guy. Out – do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.”

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

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

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

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

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

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Cab Calloway Quote: “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!”

10. “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!”

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

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

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Cab Calloway Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Cab Calloway Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Cab Calloway Quote: “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.”

14. “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

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