Les Baxter Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.