Chet Baker > Quotes

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

“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. I find this a little exasperating, but I'm a lot more experienced now, and understand that probably less than 2 percent of the public can really hear. When I say hear, I mean follow a horn player through his ideas, and be able to understand those ideas in relation to the changes, if the changes are completely modern. Dixie is different - it's easier to follow, and rock is even simpler than Dixie, except for the music of a few really fine rock musicians (or variations thereof)...”
― Chet Baker, As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir

“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

“Every summer I'd spend a couple of months on the farm in Yale walking the dirt road that led to the highway, picking wild raspberries along the way. Often I'd walk out into the watermelons, pick one up over my head, and let it fall so that it split wide open. Then I'd eat the sweet heart out of it and leave the rest to the birds.”
― Chet Baker, As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir