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It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had.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