Quotes from Herb Alpert

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

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

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.

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.

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

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.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

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.

I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.

It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

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

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

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.

This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.

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.

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

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

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.

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

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

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

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.