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Les Baxter

"You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all."

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"You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all."

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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

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"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."

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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"

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"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."

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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

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"Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time."

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"Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love - you know, things I don't care about anymore."

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