Artie Shaw Quotes

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

Artie Shaw

• Clarinet

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• The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Often
  • Russians
  • Took

• I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Money
  • Manager
  • Borrowing

• I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Kind
  • Water
  • Pool

• Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.

  

  Harper Lee
  • People
  • Home
  • Dream

• This will make widows wince. But fictive things Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Drama

• The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • People
  • Innocent

• Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Real

• It was in the best interests of Zavala and other counties that we move forward with a farm bill and provide certainty to ranchers, farmers, food banks, and other providers.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Food

• My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • She
  • Mom
  • Gay

• For the first three years, when I was writing, I was doing sessions with a whole bunch of different people all the time every day until I met Lindy Robbins, who kind of mentored me. And then, once you find that, all the pieces come together.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Up
  • Time
  • Cool

• I believe in clean skin and using a good cleanser, toner, and moisturiser.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Good
  • Believe

• Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the work even when that feeling of inspiration isn't there at all.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina

• For every step forward in electronic communications, we've taken two steps back in humanity. People know how to use a computer and answering machines but have forgotten how to connect with one another. Our society is unraveling. We're too self-obsessed.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • People
  • Society
  • Taken

• I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Art
  • Serious

• Keep enjoying it, and if you do that, then you are going to get better.

  

  Brian McBride

• 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
  • Muscles
  • Manipulate

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

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Surgeon

• A woman could be having fun A woman could be like a nun In order to survive We cannot be kind Until we are hurt.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Fun
  • Woman
  • Hurt

• I love you still, Against my will.

  

  Sarah Kane
  • Love
  • Will
  • Against

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

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Clarinet