Les Baxter was a famous Musician from USA, who lived between March 14, 1922 and January 15, 1996. He/she became 73 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive.
Our collection contains 19 quotes who is written / told by Les, under the main topic Music.
19 Famous quotes by Les Baxter
"That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing"
"I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work"
"You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all"
"I'm not an intellectual composer"
"I write emotional music"
"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible"
"Any good music must be an innovation"
"I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them"
"I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste"
"I love doing concert music"
"Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it"
"Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way"
"Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers"
"I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion"
"I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each"
"I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit"
"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"
"I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits"
"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30"
