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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
Another
Going
Happiness
Hear
Interested
Nobody
Singing
Story
Thing
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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
Anything
Change
Cut
Different
Different Things
Entirely
Movie
Out
Picture
Put
Scene
Show
Stage
Take
Things
Two
Want
You
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
~ Cab Calloway
Performer
Segregated
Some
Times
Us
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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
Bubbles
Country
Course
Dancer
Dancers
Good
He
Leading
Much
Our
Time
Tremendous
Very
Voice
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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.
~ Cab Calloway
Any
Could
Did
Entertaining
Everybody
Fun
Had
Lot
Never
Saw
See
Segregation
Something
Very
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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.
~ Cab Calloway
Audiences
Came
Club
Cotton
Could
Down
Everybody
Join
Name
Our
Would
You
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
~ Cab Calloway
Effort
Guy
He
His
Other
Out
Silly
Times
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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
Catfish
Color
Difference
Expect
Go
Hear
I Think
Just
Make
Marvelous
No Difference
Now
Opera
Row
See
Singers
Think
Voices
Were
You
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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.
~ Cab Calloway
Away
Been
Blame
Company
Course
Difficult
Done
Good
Gotten
Had
Just
Messed
Messed Up
Opera
Original
Photograph
Taking
Up
Very
Would
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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
~ Cab Calloway
Audience
Did
How
Life
My Life
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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
About
Awhile
Change
Company
Course
European
George
He
Know
Nobody
Speaking
Why
Wrote
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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
Acting
Actually
Credit
Give
I Can
Job
Only
Rough
Them
Thought
Time
Very
Were
Wonderful
Would
You
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We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
~ Cab Calloway
Any
Club
Cotton
Free
Open
Segregation
Wide
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
~ Cab Calloway
Before
Every
Five
Four
Got
Morning
Never
Out
Rough
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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.
~ Cab Calloway
Else
Happen
Love
Name
Opera
Other
Something
Something Else
Than
Things
Things Happen
Two
Violence
Violent
You
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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! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
~ Cab Calloway
Because
Black
Did
Difference
Good
Good Job
Green
He
I Think
Job
Make
Make A Difference
Man
Think
White
Wrote
You
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Cab Calloway
Profession
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BirthDate
25 December, 1907
DeathDate
18 November, 1994
Country
United States
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