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

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

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

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

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

Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.