Artie Shaw Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

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

  Artie Shaw

  Bottles, Jazz, Whiskey

• '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.

  Artie Shaw

  Swings, Musician, Adjectives

• 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.

  Artie Shaw

  Baby, Giving, Tunes

• I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

  Artie Shaw

  Music, Facts, Jazz

• An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

  Artie Shaw

  Music, Writing, Artist

• 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

  Music, Home, Guy

• 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

  Games, Playing Music, Why Not

• I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.

  Artie Shaw

  Running, School, Talking

• I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

  Artie Shaw

  Thinking, Band, Jazz

• It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had.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.

  Artie Shaw

  Swings, Band, Firsts

• Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

  Artie Shaw

  Thinking, Swings, Jazz

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