Herb Alpert famous quotes

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

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

#Integrity #Quality
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
-- Herb Alpert

#Music #Morning #Exercise
You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.
-- Herb Alpert

#Artist #Different #Records
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

#Song #Interesting #Musician
The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.
-- Herb Alpert

#Loyal #Audience
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

#Numbers #Musical #Sound
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

#Couple #Feel Good #Might
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

#Song #Artist #Thinking
I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
-- Herb Alpert

#Guy #Adventurous #Miles
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.
-- Herb Alpert

#Nice #Feelings #Littles
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

#Cutting #Long #Sound
It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.
-- Herb Alpert

#Tape #Noise #Cleaning
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.
-- Herb Alpert

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

#Thinking #Interesting #Live In The Moment
I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
-- Herb Alpert

#Taken #Sound #Mexico
I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
-- Herb Alpert

#Pleasure
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
-- Herb Alpert

#Singing #Lyrical #Trumpets
Instrumental music can spread the international language.
-- Herb Alpert

#Music #Jazz #Language
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
-- Herb Alpert

#Jazz #Classical Music

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