Chet Baker famous quotes

03-28-2025

I'm definitely a romantic, I don't think life is really worth all the pain and effort and struggling if you don't have somebody that you love very much
-- Chet Baker

#Pain #Struggle #Thinking
Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.
-- Chet Baker

#Music #Play #Wells
It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play.
-- Chet Baker

#Play #People #Three
The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.
-- Chet Baker

#Play #Jazz #Inspired
You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.
-- Chet Baker

#Love You #Love Is
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?
-- Chet Baker

#Art #Media #Greek
I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.
-- Chet Baker

#Nice #Believe #Way
It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
-- Chet Baker

#Drummer
Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.
-- Chet Baker

#Drummer #All Time #All Time Favorite
People said I'd never make 35, then I'd never make 40, 45; now I'm almost 50, so Im beginning to think maybe they might be wrong.
-- Chet Baker

#Thinking #People #Might
In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.
-- Chet Baker

#Art #Europe #America

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