Author: Les Baxter

Quotes

I love doing concert music.

I love doing concert music.

- Les Baxter

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

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

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

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

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

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Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.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

Any good music must be an innovation.

Any good music must be an innovation.

- Les Baxter

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