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

- Artie Shaw

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

- Artie Shaw

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

- Artie Shaw

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

- 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

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