35+ Herb Alpert Quotes On Herbs, Tour And Karen Carpenter

Herb Alpert is an American musician and music industry executive. He is the co-founder of A&M Records and is best known as a trumpet player. He has won nine Grammy Awards and has sold over 72 million records worldwide. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Herb Alpert on love, life, herbs.

Top 10 Herb Alpert Quotes

1. I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
2. Instrumental music can spread the international language.
3. I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
4. I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
5. 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.
6. There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.
7. The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.
8. 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.
9. It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.
10. The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

Herb Alpert Short Quotes

• We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show.
• Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.
• I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.
• You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.
• I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.
• I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

Herb Alpert Quotes About Jazz

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz. — Herb Alpert

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

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. — Herb Alpert

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

Herb Alpert Quotes About Music

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music. — Herb Alpert

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure. — Herb Alpert

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

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

Herb Alpert Quotes About Record

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

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

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

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

Herb Alpert Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Herb Alpert

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

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. — Herb Alpert

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. — 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

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

Life Lessons by Herb Alpert

1. Herb Alpert's career has taught us that hard work, dedication, and passion can lead to success.
2. His example shows us that it is possible to break into the music industry and make a name for yourself without relying on traditional methods.
3. His music has also shown us that it is possible to create something unique and beautiful out of seemingly disparate elements.