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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.
Herb Alpert

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
Herb Alpert

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
Herb Alpert

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.
Herb Alpert

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
Herb Alpert

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.
Herb Alpert

I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.
Herb Alpert

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.
Herb Alpert

Instrumental music can spread the international language.
Herb Alpert

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.
Herb Alpert

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.
Herb Alpert

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.
Herb Alpert

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
Herb Alpert

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.
Herb Alpert

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.
Herb Alpert

We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show.
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.
Herb Alpert

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.
Herb Alpert 







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