63 Quotes by Herb Alpert

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.

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.

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 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.

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

I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it’s one man, one vote as you’re playing, but it’s a collective thing, what you’re doing. You’re listening to all the musicians around you and you’re working within that structure.

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 listed to the adventurous guys – the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

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.