If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

- Artie Shaw

If I could have done anything more, it would have been less

- Artie Shaw

You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.

- Artie Shaw

That's the clarinet I used to use... but it's just a piece of wood, you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy keys on it and you're suppos…

- Artie Shaw

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

- Artie Shaw

Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an …

- Artie Shaw

People ask what those women saw in me. Let's face it, I wasn't a bad-looking stud. But that's not it. It's the music; it's standing up there under th…

- Artie Shaw

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

- Artie Shaw

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

- Artie Shaw