63 Quotes by Herb Alpert

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.

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.

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.

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 find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

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

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.

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.