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

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.

- 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

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…

- 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 horn up to around C or D. High D is abo…

- 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 somebody that you love very mu…

- 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 to the side. People don'…

- Chet Baker