Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it.

Artie Shaw's Popular Quotes

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

- Artie Shaw

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

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

- Artie Shaw

I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.

- Artie Shaw

Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

- Artie Shaw