Clarinet Quote by Artie Shaw Download Open image “Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.” — Artie Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clarinet Goodman Music Play
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… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet. — Lee Konitz Copy Share Image
I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records. — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone. — Joel Murray Copy Share Image
Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel. — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly… — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now that what… — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and… — Jon Tester Copy Share Image
Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control. — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
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… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
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… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
People ask what those women saw in me. Let's face it, I wasn't a bad-looking stud. But that's not it. It's the music; it's… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
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… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records. — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a… — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a… — Tennessee Ernie Ford Copy Share Image
My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case! — Eddie Condon Copy Share Image
I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and… — Samantha Barks Copy Share Image
I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear… — Pete Fountain Copy Share Image
I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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