27 Quotes by 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 little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

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.

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.

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

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

The one thing that did stand out in my memory was the fact that he had a well documented association with Heroin. Growing up with a somewhat myopic view of the world, I could not understand how it was that people could put a drug user on such a high pedestal (If you will pardon the pun).

He almost adds a Chet-like sound to it,

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.

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