Artie Shaw Music Quotations

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?

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

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

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

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