Clarinet Quote by Artie Shaw

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.

— Artie Shaw

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

— Artie Shaw

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

— Lee Konitz

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

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

— Alvin Lee

Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his…

— Stanley Crouch

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

— Gerry Mulligan

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

Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

— Eddie Condon

I played clarinet for many years.

— Nadine Coyle

I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.

— Dwayne Hickman

Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

— Harry James