- Fortune Teller: And now we got to do something to remedy the status quo.
- Cab Calloway: What to mean, "the status quo"?
- Fortune Teller: Brother, that's Latin for the mess that you's in.
- Cab's Mother: [First lines] For the last time, child, I axe you, is you or is you ain't goin' to stop wavin' that stick around?
- Cab Calloway: Oh, Mom, I'm trainin' to be a conductor.
- Cab's Mother: Yeah, if you ever tryin' to get to a conductor - and a job as a Pullman porter.
- Cab Calloway: Huh! Not me. I'm goin' places someday! I may go to Broadway. I might go to Paris. Even to London!
- Cab Calloway: [singing] Hi de hi de hi de hi!
- Cab Calloway's Orchestra, Themselves: Hi de hi de hi de hi!
- Cab Calloway: Wo-Woooo-Ooo-Ooo!
- Cab Calloway's Orchestra, Themselves: Wo-Woooo-Ooo-Ooo!
- Cab Calloway: Now Brother Jones lived in sin, He just couldn't stop drinking his gin, He heeded my miracle plan. Now he brings his gin to me, And I get drunk instead, you see, I'm the hi-de-ho miracle man!