Top 31 Quotes About Chet Baker
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
Carla Bley
#4. Chet Faker's a reference to the late Chet Baker. I'm a big fan of his vocal style; it's quite fragile and soft, and that was a style I wanted to take on.
Chet Faker
#5. When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.
Eric Cantona
#6. 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
#7. I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.
Chet Baker
#8. The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.
Chet Baker
#9. 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
#10. Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.
Chet Baker
#11. 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
#12. This is what love was supposed to feel like.This perfect immersion of two people who were ready and willing to become a part of each other.
A Meredith Walters
#13. 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 about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.
Chet Baker
#14. To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today.
Barbara Johnson
#15. Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.
Paulo Coelho
#16. There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.
Shane Claiborne
#17. I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.
C.J. Cherryh
#18. He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.
Andrew Cuomo
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.
Annie Murphy Paul
#24. Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.
Cameron Dokey
#25. the Bank's proper role in a crisis as the 'lender of last resort', to lend freely, albeit at a penalty rate, to combat liquidity crises.42
Niall Ferguson
#26. Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.
Chet Baker
#27. Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.
Garry Kasparov
#28. Reggae is my heart since I was a kid. I love Reggae music.
Eve
#29. It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.
Chet Baker
#30. 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
#31. 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
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