"I pride myself as a semi-schizophrenic. I'm trying to understand the universe. There is no sense in the real world. I try to inject a bit of rationality in this wide-range of irrationality. So what am I doing? Criticizing the hell out of everything!"
source: Artie Shaw's commencement speech entitled 'Three Chords For Beauty And One To Pay The Rent', given to the graduates at California Lutheran University, 1987.
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Artie Shaw Quotes
"Whatever you do in life, aim at perfection. It will not be understood or even appreciated by most people. However, in the long run, the closer you come to achieving your own inner standards of perfection, and they'll be rising all the time, the better you'll be. In your lifetime you will come reasonable close (two or three times) to perfection. I've come about twice where I can say that is as close to perfection as I can get. I consider myself an 80-percent loser, of which I am proud. So, have fun. Get into your life and do what you enjoy and be the best at what you can be. Maybe you won't be successful and rich by the world's standards, but you will have the best life capable of having. If you don't do that, you're cheating yourself." - Artie Shaw
source: Artie Shaw's commencement speech entitled 'Three Chords For Beauty And One To Pay The Rent', given to the graduates at California Lutheran University, 1987.
source: Artie Shaw's commencement speech entitled 'Three Chords For Beauty And One To Pay The Rent', given to the graduates at California Lutheran University, 1987.
Ella Fitzgerald Quotes
"I've had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn't work out. I don't want to dwell on that and I don't want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I've been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I've met - that ought to make a story." - Ella Fitzgerald
Wingy Manone Quotes
"I have no regrets and I've done everything in life I wanted to do... So if I go out today or tomorrow it doesn't make no difference. But while I'm alive I want to go on playing. I like to play, and if I couldn't I'd be a miserable old man." - Wingy Manone
Sweets Edison Quotes
"I wouldn't change a thing; not one minute of my life over, if I had it to do again. I'd live the same life because I wouldn't know any other. And I wouldn't wish to, because I've met the most interesting people I could ever have hoped to meet and I've achieved a great deal of artistic satisfaction." - Sweets Edison
Herbie Hancock Quotes
"You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life." - Herbie Hancock
Roy Ayers Quotes
"Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life." - Roy Ayers
