This was during a period when I was producing Brazil ’66 records and got infected by Brazilian music. – 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 find that it’s nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else’s feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself. – 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
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
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
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. – 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
We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it’s going to come back to you. – 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
I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico… not so much the music, but the spirit. – 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
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
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
