Porgy Quotes

Singing songs like `The Man I Love` or `Porgy` is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

When I saw a production of Porgy and Bess, I wanted to be Porgy because he was the smallest guy on the stage, and I identified with him.

Charleston was a good town. It was a nice town. I played there years ago before Porgy and Bess. And I think the conception wasn`t bad. It was good.

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.

Of course, nobody knows what Porgy was, whether he was on his knees all the time or was pulled by a goat or - they don`t know what he was.