Les Baxter Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.”

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

“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.”

“I'm not an intellectual composer.”

“That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.”

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

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

“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.”