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Any good music must be an innovation.

I love doing concert music.

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

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

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

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.

Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

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

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

Les Baxter