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Les Baxter

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

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"Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers."
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"Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way."
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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 love doing concert music."
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