Artie Shaw Quotes

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

Artie Shaw

• Wonder
• Phenomenon
• Resonate

If I could have done anything more, it would have been less.

Artie Shaw

• Done

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

• Music
• Money
• Why

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

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

• Home
• Guys
• Autograph

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

• Music
• Different
• Clarinet

Any more would have been less.

Artie Shaw

• More
• Less

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

• Music
• Money
• Fun

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijana, and will expire on cocaine.

Artie Shaw

• Jazz
• Marijuana
• Whiskey

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

Artie Shaw

• Good
• Living
• Days

Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.

Artie Shaw

• Up
• Moon
• Stars