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.

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

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.