“Oh, to dress Chet. Oh, yes. This is fun. . . I think the best comment he ever made about clothes, oh no, there were two really. ‘Listen Ruth, I’m not up there to win any beauty contests.’ That was the first one. And all I was talking about was a shower and a comb through the hair. The other one was . . . [he finally] turned around and said ‘Hey . . . does this look OK?’ And I said no, that stinks. He said ‘Well, it’s red, and it’s red.’ And it was like this hideous burgundy with a pair of red pants. . . . In his mind, as long as it came from the red family, it worked.”

—singer Ruth Young, on Chet Baker, from the documentary Let’s Get Lost, directed by Bruce Weber, 1987.