The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Cab Calloway
- People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.
- 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!
- You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
- 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
- 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
- What opera isn’t violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can’t
- Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
- 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
- We usually never got out of there before four or five o’clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
- 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 (1907–1994) was a trailblazing American jazz singer, bandleader, and entertainer, renowned for his energetic performances and iconic scat singing. Born in Rochester, New York, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Calloway was drawn to music early, studying voice and piano while pursuing law studies at Crane College, which he later abandoned to focus on his passion for jazz.
He rose to fame in the 1930s as the leader of the Cotton Club Orchestra, later renamed Cab Calloway and His Orchestra. His dynamic stage presence and hits like “Minnie the Moocher” made him a household name, with his signature “Hi-De-Ho” refrain becoming a cultural touchstone. Calloway’s charisma extended beyond music to acting, appearing in films such as The Blues Brothers (1980).
A pioneer for African-American performers, Calloway’s influence shaped jazz and popular music, leaving an enduring legacy.
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