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.

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

I broke with my religion in college.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.