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.

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

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

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

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.