Les Baxter

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

— Les Baxter

#brazilian #down #i #like #nothing

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

— Les Baxter

#believed #going #i #music #never

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

#attain #belongs #certainly #deserves #enough

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.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

#becomes #challenge #hit #imagination #ingenuity

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

— Les Baxter

#clever #conquered #i #spanish #thing

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

— Les Baxter

#anything #capitol #complete #complete freedom #contract

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

— Les Baxter

#simple #stick #style #well #you

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

— Les Baxter

#i #musicians #orchestra #want

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

— Les Baxter

#bomb #broadway #every #kind #know