I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.
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
- Artie Shaw
You have no idea of the women I didn't marry. - Artie Shaw
You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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
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?'
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