41 Quotes by Artie Shaw

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

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.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.

You have no idea of the people I didn't marry.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we’re living through right now.

Somebody asked me once, ‘Do you think that swing will ever come back?’ And I said, ‘Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?’

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 standing up there under the lights. A lot of women just flip; looks have nothing to do with it. You call Mick Jagger good-looking?

If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper’ll do it-all you need is a beat.