Best 13 quotes of Les Baxter on MyQuotes

Any good music must be an innovation.

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

I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

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

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

I write emotional music.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

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

Well, thats the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.