Herb Alpert Quotes

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Herb Alpert

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 31, 1935

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

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Instrumental music can spread the international language.

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

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Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.

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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.

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

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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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I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.

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

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You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

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We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show.

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This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.

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The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

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The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

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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.

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

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I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.

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

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