Herb Alpert quotes

Herb Alpert is an American musician, composer, and producer, best known as the leader of Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. His innovative sound blended jazz, Latin, and pop music, making a significant impact on popular music in the 1960s and beyond. He has also achieved great success as a co-founder of A&M Records and remains a prominent figure in the music industry. Here are 28 of his quotes:

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. (Herb Alpert)
I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose. View quote
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If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record. View quote
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I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself. View quote
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We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you. View quote
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Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. View quote
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I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store. View quote
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I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit. View quote
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I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz. View quote
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I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million. View quote
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Instrumental music can spread the international language. (Herb Alpert)
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. View quote
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I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure. View quote
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It's very clean. With tape, you get noise. View quote
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You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage. View quote
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The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience. View quote
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Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do. View quote
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Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass. View quote
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The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips. View quote
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It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers. View quote
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There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial. (Herb Alpert)
When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it. View quote
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This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music. View quote
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Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes. View quote
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I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight. View quote
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Herb Alpert

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Occupation: American Musician
Born: March 31, 1935
Quotes count: 28