Top 100 Quotes About Chet
#1. Don said, "By any chance did someone come in to confess while I was out, and just maybe you forgot to mention it?" Corrine said no one had.
Chet Williamson
#2. Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.
Chet Atkins
#3. In Europe it was once commonly believed that beasts could be possessed by demons and controlled by the evil of Satan. So animals, even birds and insects, were tried by ecclesiastical courts, just like witches and heretics. They were excommunicated, tortured and condemned to death.
Chet Williamson
#5. I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.
Chet Faker
#6. When you met people, they were on their best behavior, smiles and best manners. You couldn't tell what lurked beneath the surface
Chet Williamson
#7. The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems.
Chet Raymo
#8. Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
Chet Raymo
#9. I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.
Chet Faker
#10. If I could bottle this exact feeling I have right now, and sell it, I'd make millions." I said to Chet
"Well, unfortunately for you, but luckily for every other adult, someone already has. They called it alcohol.
Keith Buckley
#11. I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.
Brenda Lee
#12. Our generation's grown up with the Internet, so it's an extension of our social lives; it's an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.
Chet Faker
#13. 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
Chet Baker
#14. 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?
Chet Baker
#15. Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
Waylon Jennings
#16. Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap
Chet Raymo
#17. Coincidence is the science of the true believer.
Chet Raymo
#18. I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.
Chet Faker
#19. It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
Chet Baker
#20. I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games ... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.
Chet Faker
#21. When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read a hundred times before.
Chet Williamson
#22. The pickup bumped heavily over the worn and stony footpath. The up-down motion made Cliff belch. He hit the break and came to a full stop in order to take a pull from the bottle. This was one time he couldn't drink while driving.
Chet Williamson
#24. You'd have been scared too if that big troglodyte had put his hands on you. He smelled like dirty socks and store brand cola. Chet Andrews
Aaron Crabill
#25. I like a lot of independent brands - Melbourne's Kloke, Handsom and Neuw Denim, and Bassike in Sydney. It's easier to be proud of what you're wearing if you've met the people behind the brand and there's more of a personal story.
Chet Faker
#26. I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear my voice and think, 'Yeah, that's a banging voice!' It's more about putting the right emotions into the right words and the lyrics than anything else to me.
King Krule
#27. You can't dwell on what might have been ... and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#28. I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner ... And at the other end of the spectrum, I had Eric Clapton in a rock and blues sense, jazz guys such as Tal Farlow and Les Paul ... Then Chet Atkins-type stuff.
Brad Paisley
#29. Adele's voice is incredible. Chet Baker also has one of my favorite voices of all time, and so does Joni Mitchell. And Frank Black. Oh, and Stevie Nicks.
Megan Boone
#30. If you got the chance, you acted. If you sat back and waited and hoped that something good would come along and save you, or fix what you were too frightened or weak or stupid to fix for yourself, you could wait a lifetime and still be trapped.
Chet Williamson
#31. I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.
Jeannette Walls
#32. I don't start my show at 200%. I like to go in slow, warm up the crowd, and bring them along with me. To hear everyone singing along is so great.
Chet Faker
#33. Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.
Chet Faker
#34. He'd read that rage remained forever in a place that had once nurtured it. "The spirit of the place.
Chet Williamson
#35. I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.
Chet Faker
#36. Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.
Suzy Bogguss
#37. Good! Brad thought. Great! I can see the headline now: MORGANTOWN MYSTERY DISEASE FELLS ALL CHILDREN, BUT TOLL PALES IN COMPARISON WITH BLACK DEATH. CDC OFFICIALS GREATLY RELIEVED!
Chet Williamson
#38. Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.
Chet Baker
#39. I think diva is an inevitable outcome of the industry, and I don't think it reflects on the person at all. You take a normal human being, and basically, for 24 hours, seven days a week, apart from sleeping, you introduce them to places and things almost every minute that are brand new.
Chet Faker
#41. I haven't been able to think straight since I met you. I can't think of a day when you haven;t been in my thoughts. There are a hundred other things I should be thinking about, but I think about you. What you're doing, when I'll see you next, what you're thinking.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#42. I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.
Chet Faker
#43. What I like about Americans is if it's good music, that's the only thing that matters.
Chet Faker
#44. GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Chet Williamson
#45. The customers were mainly people middle-aged or older, and they'd probably take a sledge hammer to anything that spewed out the top forty. This was Lawrence Welk country. A wild tune was a polka.
Chet Williamson
#46. That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill.
Chet Faker
#47. Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet.
Chet Huntley
#48. If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.
Chet Atkins
#49. It's just that I think we should be responsible for our friends, is all. If we're not, why bother to have friends?
Chet Williamson
#50. you will attract way more buyers if you are offering to teach them something of value to them than you will ever attract by simply trying to sell them your product or ser vice.
Chet Holmes
#51. Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.
Chet Williamson
#52. Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.
Chet Raymo
#53. Warriors in some cultures drink the blood of their enemies. Some people consume the blood of animals." "As a rule, here on Ice Island, they restrain themselves.
Chet Williamson
#54. Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.
Chet Atkins
#55. Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.
Chet Huntley
#56. Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
Carla Bley
#57. You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.
Chet Faker
#58. I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.
Chet Faker
#59. This is an age when men hide their deepest fears and instincts behind a mask of rationality. Mankind has become a herd of sheep which does not believe in the existence of wolves.
Chet Williamson
#60. The day you stop clapping at a gig is the day your soul dies.
Chet Faker
#61. I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the ... government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.
Chet Huntley
#62. Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.
Chet Atkins
#63. There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.
Chet Williamson
#64. 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
#66. Gossip? Me? How would I know about such things?" "Don't think of it as gossip. Think of it as rumor and innuendo.
Chet Williamson
#67. I soon became aware that there wasn't enough time or opportunity to kiss all the girls in the world. The best thing is to stay cool - just be choosy and wait for the right opportunity.
Chet Baker
#68. Sometimes it feels like it's show after show after show - like it's 'Groundhog Day,' and you feel like you're lost in the system.
Chet Faker
#69. If I had stayed purely a horror writer or thriller writer, I might have more of a presence in those particular genres, and I'd certainly have more individual titles to market, since it's much easier to write pure genre fiction than it is to create something different.
Chet Williamson
#70. Chet suddenly wished she had quit teaching the class because of him, that he'd had any effect on her at all.
Maile Meloy
#71. It was definitely hard when I first started, and by no means do I consider my live show to be where I want it to be; it will develop step by step for the rest of my life.
Chet Faker
#73. Ultimately, I love making music more than anything. And I want to do that for ever. I don't want be on the top. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing.
Chet Faker
#74. within yourself, you became a grave for her as you were a grave for Chet, and you carried your dead unquietly within you. -
Wallace Stegner
#75. I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.
Chet Faker
#76. Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.
Chet Faker
#77. 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
#78. It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!
Chet Faker
#79. If you're not former military, join the Marine Corps.
Chet Richards
#80. It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.
Chet Atkins
#81. Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.
Chet Huntley
#82. Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off ...
Chet Atkins
#83. I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.
Chet Baker
#84. A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Chet Atkins
#85. I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing harmony with Waylon Jennings on a few songs that were hits. Chet Atkins always put me up so high that I strained to hit every note. It was a lot of fun.
Ray Stevens
#86. I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.
Chet Faker
#87. My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.
Chet Faker
#88. I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.
Chet Huntley
#89. I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.
Chet Faker
#90. 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't listen.
Chet Baker
#91. An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot ... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.
Chet Faker
#92. Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within your restrictions. Somethings you can do better than others, some things you can't do as well. So accentuate the positive.
Chet Atkins
#93. All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'
Chet Faker
#94. Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.
Chet Baker
#95. 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
#96. Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.
Chet Raymo
#97. The one who gives the market the most and best information will always slaughter the one who just wants to sell products or services.
Chet Holmes
#98. All he knew was that the rage was still there, eating inside him, not with the slow stealth of a cancer, but with the rapid, careless ravening of a weasel gnawing at his entrails, or the constant alimentary torment that drives on the shark to his incessant feeding until only death gives him rest.
Chet Williamson
#99. There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
Randy Bachman
#100. October 31st dawned damp and cold, but by nine in the morning the misty rain had dissipated, and blue sky broke through. By eleven the sun had dried the leaves to crisp colors, and the world smelled of apples and burning wood smoke and candles and pumpkin innards.
Chet Williamson
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