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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 the lights. A lot of women just flip; looks have nothing to do with it. You call Mick Jagger good-looking? -- Artie Shaw
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I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks. -- Artie Shaw
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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
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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
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The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging. -- Artie Shaw
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I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less. -- Artie Shaw
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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
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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
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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
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An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. -- Artie Shaw
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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
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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
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An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. -- Artie Shaw
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Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine. -- Artie Shaw
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Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars. -- Artie Shaw
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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
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You have no idea of the women I didn't marry. -- Artie Shaw
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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
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Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music. -- Artie Shaw
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An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control. -- Artie Shaw
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You have no idea of the people I didn't marry. -- Artie Shaw
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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
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Any more would have been less. -- Artie Shaw
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If you don't see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you're not going to resonate very much. -- Artie Shaw
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If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat. -- Artie Shaw
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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
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If I could have done anything more, it would have been less -- Artie Shaw
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I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore. -- Artie Shaw
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Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel. -- Artie Shaw
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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. -- Artie Shaw