Artie Shaw Quotes - Page 2

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• Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

  Artie Shaw

  Play, Clarinet, Goodman

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• You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava Gardner - and says, "I like you and why don't we get together?" What are you going to say, "No"? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.

  Artie Shaw

  Beautiful, Running, I Like You

  " Artie Shaw, the Reluctant 'King of Swing'", NPR, March 8, 2002.

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• 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.

  Artie Shaw

  Writing, Artist, Misunderstood

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• The bandleader is a musician trying to sell a mass commodity; and in order to do so successfully he must accommodate himself to mass standards. Unless he can do this comfortably, sooner or later he is sunk.

  Artie Shaw

  Order, Trying, Musician

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• I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

  Artie Shaw

  Thinking, Band, Jazz

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• There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?

  Artie Shaw

  Games, Playing Music, Why Not

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