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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
There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.
— Charley Pride
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
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
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.
— Chet Faker
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
— Chet Raymo
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
Dark is dark in the darkness.
— Chet Williamson
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
I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.
— Chet Faker
GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
— Chet Williamson
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
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
— Carla Bley
Coincidence is the science of the true believer.
— Chet Raymo
When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.
— Chet Atkins
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
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
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
All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.
— Chet Faker
Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.
— Chet Faker
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
Word spread through the camp like a prairie
— Chet Cunningham
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
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
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
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
Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.
— Chet Williamson
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
Merridale was as self-centered as a Broadway star on opening night.
— Chet Williamson
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
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
Sleep is getting to be like gold.
— Chet Faker
I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.
— Chet Faker
Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.
— Chet Atkins
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
I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.
— Chet Faker
That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill.
— Chet Faker
There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.
— Chet Williamson
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
I'll always be poor in my mind.
— Chet Atkins
He'd read that rage remained forever in a place that had once nurtured it. "The spirit of the place.
— Chet Williamson
I'd wear all APC if I could afford it and wasn't embarrassing to go head-to-toe in one brand.
— Chet Faker
If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.
— Chet Atkins
You can't rush an art form.
— Chet Faker
You shape your own destiny.
— Chet Atkins
When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else - I had to be a musician. I can't commit to anything unless I love it.
— Chet Faker
Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.
— Suzy Bogguss
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
I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.
— Chet Faker
Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.
— Chet Faker
I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.
— Chet Faker
Sometimes I have to deal with trolls, and I just block them. But most of the time, Twitter's heaps of fun, actually.
— Chet Faker
Hype is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing if you aren't prepared to back it up.
— Chet Faker
You want a little talent on that?
— Chet Atkins
There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.
— Lee Ann Womack
I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.
— Chet Huntley
I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.
— Suzy Bogguss
I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games ... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.
— Chet Faker
Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.
— Chet Atkins
Chet suddenly wished she had quit teaching the class because of him, that he'd had any effect on her at all.
— Maile Meloy
If you're not former military, join the Marine Corps.
— Chet Richards