Les Baxter Quotes

Any good music must be an innovation.

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Les Baxter

Leslie Thompson "Les" Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was a best-selling American musician and composer. After working as an arranger and composer for swing bands, he developed his own style of easy listening music, known as exotica and scored over 100 motion pictures.

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Les Baxter

Any good music must be an innovation.

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Les Baxter

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

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

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I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.

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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.

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I love doing concert music.

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I write emotional music.

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

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Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

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Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

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

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