"An artist should write for himself & not……" — Artie Shaw

"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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21 Quotes by Artie Shaw

Artie Shaw has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.
If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.
If I could have done anything more, it would have been less
Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the…
If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.
Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing…
I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they…
It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was…
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is…
Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you…
I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about…

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More Artist Quotes

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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