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Top 15 Les Baxter Quotes (2025 Update)

Les Baxter Quote: “That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.”

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

Les Baxter Quote: “I don’t try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.”

2. “I don’t try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.”

Les Baxter Quote: “I write emotional music.”

3. “I write emotional music.”

Les Baxter Quote: “I’ve never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.”

4. “I’ve never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.”

Les Baxter Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

Les Baxter Quote: “I love doing concert music.”

6. “I love doing concert music.”

Les Baxter Quote: “I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.”

7. “I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.”

Les Baxter Quote: “Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.”

8. “Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.”

Les Baxter Quote: “When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.”

9. “When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.”

Les Baxter Quote: “I’m not an intellectual composer.”

10. “I’m not an intellectual composer.”

Les Baxter Quote: “Well, thats the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.”

11. “Well, thats the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.”

Les Baxter Quote: “I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.”

12. “I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.”

Les Baxter Quote: “Any good music must be an innovation.”

13. “Any good music must be an innovation.”

Les Baxter Quote: “I don’t know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one’s got to wake ’em up. Prod ’em a little bit.”

14. “I don’t know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one’s got to wake ’em up. Prod ’em a little bit.”

Les Baxter Quote: “Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.”

15. “Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.”

Les Baxter Quote: “I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.”

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

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