Herb Alpert

Musician

1935-03-31

Quotes by 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.

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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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• 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 trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

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

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