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

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• Les Baxter:

  Any good music must be an innovation.

• Les Baxter:

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

• Les Baxter:

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

• Les Baxter:

  Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own

• Les Baxter:

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

• Les Baxter:

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

• Les Baxter:

  In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain

• Les Baxter:

  Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and

• Les Baxter:

  I'm not an intellectual composer.

• Les Baxter:

  I write emotional music.