Les Baxter

I love doing concert music.

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.

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

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.