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
american-musician miss
Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.
order trying musician
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.
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?
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.
music artist please
An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.
music facts stink
I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.
music clarinet has-beens
I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.
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.
american-musician people
You have no idea of the people I didn't marry.
games why-not phrases
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?
swings band firsts
It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had.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.
beautiful running i-like-you
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.
funny light people
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?
fun way miserable
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.