Quotes by Herb Alpert

About Herb Alpert:

Herbert is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. Alpert is also a recording industry executive, the "A" of A&M Records, a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold to Polygram. Alpert has also created abstract expressionist paintings and sculpture over two decades, which are publicly displayed on occasion. Alpert and wife Lani Hall are substantial philanthropists through the operation of the Herb Alpert Foundation.
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You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

Herb Alpert

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.

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.

Herb Alpert

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.

Herb Alpert

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.

Herb Alpert

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

Herb Alpert

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

Herb Alpert

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

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

Herb Alpert

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

Herb Alpert

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.

Herb Alpert

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

Herb Alpert

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.

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.

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

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

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

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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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Author Bio

  • NameHerb Alpert
  • DescriptionAmerican musician
  • AliasesHerbert Alpert
  • BornMarch 31, 1935
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Trumpeter; Composer; Conductor; Entrepreneur; Songwriter; Jazz Musician
  • AwardsGrammy Trustees Award