Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

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.

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

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