63 Quotes by Herb Alpert

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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