Chet Baker

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

— Chet Baker

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

— Chet Baker

It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can…

— Chet Baker

“It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can…

— Chet Baker

I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the…

— Chet Baker

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off…

— Chet Baker

I soon became aware that there wasn't enough time or opportunity to kiss all the girls in the world. The best thing…

— Chet Baker

Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a…

— Chet Baker

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

— Chet Baker

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

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

— Chet Baker

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…

— Chet Baker

“What a guy, what a fool am I, to think my breaking heart could kid the moon”

— Chet Baker

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.

— Chet Baker

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…

— Chet Baker