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" 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness. "
Going
Happiness
Story
" 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. "
Want
Change
You
" At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres. "
Us
Segregated
Performer
" 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. "
Time
He
Voice
" 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. "
Never
Fun
See
" Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club. "
Down
You
Name
" He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times. "
Silly
Out
Other
" 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. "
You
Now
Difference
" 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. "
Blame
Messed Up
Good
" My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience. "
Audience
Did
My Life
" 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. "
He
Why
Nobody
" 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. "
Credit
You
Acting
" We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free. "
Free
Open
Segregation
" We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough. "
Morning
Got
Out
" What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't. "
Love
Things Happen
Violence
" 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! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job. "
Good
Job
Man
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