Artie Shaw Quotes About Clarinet

Quotes about: Clarinet

• When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he said 'But that's what we have in common. We both play clarinet.' I said, 'No, Benny, that's where we're different. You play clarinet, I play music.'

  Artie Shaw

  Play, Different, Firsts

• Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

  Artie Shaw

  Listening, Scalpels, Clarinet

• 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 supposed to try to take that and manipulate it with throat muscles and chops... and try to make something happen that never happened before. And when you do, you never forget it. It beats sex, it beats anything.

  Artie Shaw

  Sex, Keys, Trying

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

  Artie Shaw

  Music, Clarinet, Has Beens

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• Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

  Artie Shaw

  Play, Clarinet, Goodman

• 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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