Menu
All
All
Titles
TV Episodes
Celebs
Companies
Keywords
Advanced Search
Watchlist
Sign In
Sign In
New Customer?
Create account
EN
Fully supported
English (United States)
Partially supported
Français (Canada)
Français (France)
Deutsch (Deutschland)
हिंदी (भारत)
Italiano (Italia)
Português (Brasil)
Español (España)
Español (México)
Use app
Back
Biography
Awards
Trivia
FAQ
IMDbPro
All topics
Quotes
Artie Shaw
Edit
[on why he left fame behind in 1954] It's like having a gangrenous arm. The only thing you can do is amputate it. Obviously you're gonna miss the arm, but if you don't cut it off you'll die.
You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.
Benny Goodman
played clarinet. I played music.
I could never understand why people wanted to dance to my music. I made it good enough to listen to.
I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.
[on
Ava Gardner
] Ava has been completely victimized by the kind of life she has led, and as a result has become the kind of person she is today.
Lawrence Welk will outsell me. Tupac Shakur will outsell me, and he isn't playing a note of music.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content
Learn more about contributing
Edit page
More from this person
More to explore
List
Staff Picks: What to Watch in May
See our picks
Photos
The Greatest Character Actors of All Time
See the gallery
Recently viewed
Please enable browser cookies to use this feature.
Learn more.
Back to top