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Les Baxter [1922-1996] American
Rank: 103
Musician


Leslie Thompson "Les" Baxter was an American musician and composer. After becoming well known as an arranger and composer for swing bands in the 1940s, he developed his own style of world music-influenced easy listening music, known as exotica, during the 1950s and 1960s.

Imagination, Music

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Any good music must be an innovation. Music
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I love doing concert music.
102
You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
103
I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.
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Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
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Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers. Imagination
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I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.
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Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.
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That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
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I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.
110
I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.
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I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
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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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I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.
114
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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I'm not an intellectual composer.
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I write emotional music.
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