Les Baxter Quotes
"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
(Related: Music)
"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
- Les Baxter
(Related: Musicians, Want)
"Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it."
- Les Baxter
(Related: Style)
"Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way."
- Les Baxter
(Related: Freedom, Want)
"Any good music must be an innovation."
- Les Baxter
(Related: Music, Innovation)
"Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers."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
(Related: Imagination, Challenge, Musicians, Popular, Song)
"I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste."
- Les Baxter
(Related: Music, People, Public, Taste)
"I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion."
- Les Baxter
(Related: Nothing)
"I write emotional music."
- Les Baxter
(Related: 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
(Related: Time, Work, College)
"I love doing concert music."
- Les Baxter
(Related: Love, Music)
"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each."
- Les Baxter
(Related: Musicians, Sound)
"I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them."
- Les Baxter
(Related: Company)
"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
"I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits."
- Les Baxter
"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."
- Les Baxter
(Related: Song, Will)
"I'm not an intellectual composer."
- Les Baxter
"That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing."
- Les Baxter
(Related: Thought)