Les Baxter Quotes


I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits. Les Baxter Album 90
Any good music must be an innovation. Les Baxter Music 73
Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way. Les Baxter Anything 71
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.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 Imagination 67
That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing. Les Baxter Came 67
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 64
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 Approach 64
I write emotional music. Les Baxter Emotional 63
When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30. Les Baxter Musicians 55
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 Album 55
I love doing concert music. Les Baxter Concert 43
I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible. Les Baxter Aim 33

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