Herb Alpert Quotes

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

  Herb Alpert

  Player, Circles, Jazz

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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.

  Herb Alpert

  Integrity, Quality, Felt

  Twitter post from Feb 05, 2013

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

  Herb Alpert

  Music, Morning, Exercise

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2013

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• 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.

  Herb Alpert

  Thinking, Differences, Appreciate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

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  Art, Power Of Now, Art Is

  "Trumpeter Herb Alpert". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. March 3, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Art, Painting, Moments

  FaceBook post by Herb Alpert from Apr 26, 2017

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• 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.

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  Play, Missing, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Herb Alpert

  Thinking, Interesting, Live In The Moment

  Twitter post from Feb 22, 2013

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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Creative

  "Jazz musician Herb Alpert". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2013.

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• Instrumental music can spread the international language.

  Herb Alpert

  Music, Jazz, Language

  Twitter post from Oct 18, 2017

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• 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.

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  Song, Artist, Thinking

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

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  Art, Thinking, President

  "Trumpeter Herb Alpert". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. March 3, 2014.

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

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  Guy, Adventurous, Miles

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

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  Tough, Great Lyric, Melody

  "Jazz musician Herb Alpert". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2013.

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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.

  Herb Alpert

  Song, Interesting, Musician

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

  Herb Alpert

  Taken, Sound, Mexico

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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.

  Herb Alpert

  People, Car, Listening

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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.

  Herb Alpert

  Numbers, Musical, Sound

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• The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

  Herb Alpert

  Loyal, Audience, Seems

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• The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

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  Singing, Lyrical, Trumpets

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

  Herb Alpert

  Pleasure, My Own

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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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  Albums, World, Fabulous

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

  Herb Alpert

  Tape, Noise, Cleaning

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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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  Cutting, Long, Sound

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• 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.

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  Nice, Feelings, Littles

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2013

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