Herb Alpert Quotes

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

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

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

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

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

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

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.

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

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

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

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

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.

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.

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 sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.

I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.

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.

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 records. It's something I will always do.

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

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