Author: Les Baxter

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

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

- Les Baxter

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

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

- Les Baxter

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.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

I write emotional music.

I write emotional music.

- Les Baxter

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

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

I love doing concert music.

I love doing concert music.

- Les Baxter

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

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

Any good music must be an innovation.

Any good music must be an innovation.

- Les Baxter

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