I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is artists are misunderstood by all. I'm not interested in the clarinet but in music. we speak our emotions into music. An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. My situation is the same. Let them concentrate on my music and not on me. I like the music. I love it and live it, in fact. But for me, the business part of music just plain stinks.
If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat. - Artie Shaw
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
If I could have done anything more, it would have been less
You have no idea of the women I didn't marry. - Artie Shaw
You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.
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
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…
I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks. - Artie Shaw
I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.
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
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 …
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
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…
The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now. - Artie Shaw
The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.
Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel. - Artie Shaw
Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.
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