Herb Alpert Quotes

• You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage

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• 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.

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

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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.

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

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

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• The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

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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.

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• The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

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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.

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• Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.

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• It’s very clean. With tape, you get noise.

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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.

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• Instrumental music can spread the international language.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Birth:	31st March, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Trumpeter

About

Herbert "Herb" Alpert was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an American trumpeter most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. He is also a recording industry executive, the "A" of A&M Records, a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold to PolyGram. He also has created abstract expressionist paintings and sculpture over two decades, which are publicly displayed on occasion. His musical accomplishments include five No. 1 albums and 28 albums total on the Billboard Album chart, nine Grammy Awards, fourteen platinum albums, and fifteen gold albums. He had sold 72 million records worldwide.

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