Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw
Artie Shawwas an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, and actor. Also an author, Shaw wrote both fiction and non-fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth23 May 1910
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
music home guy
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?
swings musician adjectives
'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.
baby giving needs
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.
ordinary wonder phenomenon
If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.
ballet needs beats
If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.
sex keys trying
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...
music clarinet has-beens
I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.
play firsts etc
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.'
bottles whiskey jazz
Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.
music artist please
An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.
music writing artist
An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.
done if-i-could ifs
If I could have done anything more, it would have been less
thinking definitions needs
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.
ideas funny-marriage no-idea
You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.