Jesse Hamlin. «Artie Shaw: 1910–2004: Bandleader was last of the swing-era giants» (en anglès). «The big problem for some people — and unfortunately I'm one of them – is that you eventually reach a point where you're never satisfied with what your doing," Shaw wrote in an essay accompanying "Self Portrait," a five-CD retrospective of his music released in 2001. "You finally get to where good enough ain't good enough.»
