Les Baxter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Any good music must be an innovation.
-- Les Baxter

#Music #Innovation #Musical
I'm not an intellectual composer.
-- Les Baxter

#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.
-- Les Baxter

#Tunes #Good Enough #Made
I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.
-- Les Baxter

#Two #Trying #Musician
Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
-- Les Baxter

#Want #Way #Contracts
I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.
-- Les Baxter

#Song #Way #Fit
I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.
-- Les Baxter

#Music #Thinking #People
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

#College
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

#Ems #Littles #Problem
I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.
-- Les Baxter

#Years #Albums #Broadway
I love doing concert music.
-- Les Baxter

#Concerts
When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.
-- Les Baxter

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Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.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

#Song #Imagination #Challenges
Well, thats the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.
-- Les Baxter

#Simple #Secret #Style
I write emotional music.
-- Les Baxter

#Writing #Emotional

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