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I wanted to resign from the p...

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.

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When I first met Benny Goodma...

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.'

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The distance between me and B...

The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging.

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Benny Goodman plays the clari...

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

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You run into a party and [a] w...

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.

Artie Shaw 35 quotes

When I first met Benny Goodman...

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.'

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The bandleader is a musician t...

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.

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Essentially, the popular music...

Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a

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An audience is in many respect...

An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.

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Any more would have been less....

Any more would have been less.

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I was really running a music s...

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.

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You have no idea of the women ...

You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.

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The last popular song that I l...

The last popular song that I loved was 'Living La Vida Loca' by Ricky Martin,

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Shoot for the moon - if you mi...

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

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I did all you can do with a cl...

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

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An entertainer pleases others ...

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

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I like the music. I love it & ...

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

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An artist should write for him...

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

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I can't understand guys who ju...

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?

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Jazz was born out of the whisk...

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

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