Top 19 Quotes by Les Baxter

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

Any good music must be an innovation.

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

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

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

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

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.