Les Baxter Quotes

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

Music inflames temperament.

I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

I've cried over string arrangements.

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.

Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.

The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.