Herb Alpert Quotes

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• I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
• Instrumental music can spread the international language.
• The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
• We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.
• I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
• I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
• There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.
• Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
• 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…
• It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.
• 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…
• 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.
• You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.
• 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…
• The Japanese seem to be a 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
• I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

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