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Chet Baker – Great Quotes

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

“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."

“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.”

“What a guy, what a fool am I, to think my breaking heart could kid the moon”

“The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.”

“He almost adds a Chet-like sound to it,”

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