Les Baxter Quotes

• Any good music must be an innovation.

  Les Baxter

  Music, Innovation, Musical

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

  Les Baxter

  Clever

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• I write emotional music.

  Les Baxter

  Writing, Emotional

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• 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

  Deserve More, Tunes, Enough

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

  Les Baxter

  Want, Way, Contracts

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• Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.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

  Song, Imagination, Challenges

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• I'm not an intellectual composer.

  Les Baxter

  Intellectual, Composer

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

  Les Baxter

  Two, Trying, Musician

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

  Les Baxter

  Song, Way, Fit

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• Well, thats the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

  Les Baxter

  Simple, Secret, Style

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• 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

  College, Working All The Time

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

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  Ems, Littles, Problem

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

  Les Baxter

  Years, Albums, Broadway

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• I love doing concert music.

  Les Baxter

  Concerts

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

  Les Baxter

  Musician, Orchestra, Want

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

  Les Baxter

  Music, Thinking, People

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