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Les Baxter

Any good music must be an innovation.

— Les Baxter music

I love doing concert music.

— Les Baxter love

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

— Les Baxter freedom

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

— Les Baxter music

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

— Les Baxter music

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

— Les Baxter music

I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

— Les Baxter wit

I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.

— Les Baxter time

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

— Les Baxter men

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.

— Les Baxter war

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

— Les Baxter music

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

— Les Baxter time

I write emotional music.

— Les Baxter music

I'm not an intellectual composer.

— Les Baxter intellect

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

— Les Baxter thought

Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

— Les Baxter you

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

— Les Baxter music

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

— Les Baxter success

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