Les Baxter quotes
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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 don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.”
-- Les Baxter -
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“Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.”
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“I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.”
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“I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.”
-- Les Baxter -
“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 -
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“I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.”
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“I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.”
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“When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.”
-- Les Baxter -
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“Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.”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, thats the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.”
-- Les Baxter
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