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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
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As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir by Chet Baker
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