American - Musician | March 14, 1922 - January 15, 1996
Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
Les Baxter
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When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.
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I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.
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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.
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Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
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I'm not an intellectual composer.
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I write emotional music.
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