Chet Baker Quotes

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• 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.
• 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…
• It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
• Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.
• 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…
• 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…
• The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.
• 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.…
• I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.
• 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…
• Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

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