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“'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.”
-- Artie Shaw

#Swings #Nouns #Musician
“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 out-of-tune playing 'Melancholy Baby' and you've got dance music.”
-- Artie Shaw

#Baby #Giving #Tunes
“If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.”
-- Artie Shaw

#Ballet #Needs #Beats
“If you donâ€™t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, youâ€™re not going to resonate very much.”
-- Artie Shaw

#Ordinary #Wonder #Phenomenon
“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
“Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.”
-- Artie Shaw

#Play #Clarinet
“The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.”
-- Artie Shaw
“I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.”
-- Artie Shaw

#Running #School #Talking
“Any more would have been less.”
-- Artie Shaw
“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
“It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.”
-- Artie Shaw

#Swings #Band #Firsts
“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
“Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.”
-- Artie Shaw

#Bottles #Jazz #Whiskey
“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

#Thinking #Swings #Said
“If I could have done anything more, it would have been less”
-- Artie Shaw

#Done
“You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.”
-- Artie Shaw

#Ideas #Funny Marriage
“I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it?”
-- Artie Shaw

#Music #Home #Guy
“An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.”
-- Artie Shaw

#Music #Writing #Artist
“I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.”
-- Artie Shaw

#Music #Facts #Stink
“An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.”
-- Artie Shaw

#Music #Artist #Please
“I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.”
-- Artie Shaw

#Music #Clarinet

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