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Cab Calloway

"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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"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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"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."

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"But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned."

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"I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again."

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"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."

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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."

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"Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well."

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"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."

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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."

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"He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times."

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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."

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

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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."

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

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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."

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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."

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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."

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