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’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.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn’t play like Wynton.

Well if I could play like Wynton Marsalis, I wouldn’t play like Wynton.

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

He almost adds a Chet-like sound to it.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Champions get what they want because they know what they want. They have a vision that keeps them motivated and efficiently on track. They see it, feel it, and experience it in their minds and hearts. What is success for you? You won’t get there without knowing what it feels and looks like.

“He who angers you, conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

Creativity is a renewable resource. Be as creative as you like, as often as you like, because you can never run out!

Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Listen to the birds and don’t hate nobody.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.