Clarinet Quotes

• 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

• Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Said
  • Jazz
  • Cases

• Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Music
  • Clarinet
  • Benny Goodman

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

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Clarinet

• I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Passion
  • Discipline
  • Sister

• 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

• 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
  • Benny Goodman

• You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Sweat
  • Practicing
  • Clarinet