Cab Calloway American Musician Quotations

Of course, nobody knows what Porgy was, whether he was on his knees all the time or was pulled by a goat or - they don't know what he was.

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

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.

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.

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

Well, he didn't have much of a conversation with me. Not that I can remember. I wasn't used to him. That's about all. I don't know. No conversation.

They were all good. Can't say that none was best and none was worst. I don't know, they were all good as far as I was concerned.

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

Charleston was a good town. It was a nice town. I played there years ago before Porgy and Bess. And I think the conception wasn't bad. It was good.

You can't say they look up to him - if you did, you've got to look up to everybody in the show. But he's an outstanding character in the show.