Alpert Quotes & Sayings

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell. — Herb Alpert

The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding of it. Censorship in his case has perpetrated heavy and sometimes reprehensible blunders. — Hollis 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 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 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

Anyways, it made me think. Who the hell cares if Michael Phelps can swim across a pool at like warp speed? Or that some sixteen-year-old waif can spell the entire Chinese alphabet with a stupid ribbon on a stick above her head? You know who's holding this world together and leaping buildings in a single bound every day? Moms, that's who. — Karen Alpert

Within sadness lives a happiness deeper than any pain. — Cathryn Alpert

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

Mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama mama! Guess what my little rug rat can say now. The first time you hear it, your heart melts a little. The second time you hear it, your eyes well up. The 918,009,576th time you hear it, you want to stab your eardrums out with an ice pick. — Karen Alpert

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

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

I love when those annoyingly perfect moms brag that they ONLY give their kids all-natural shit. You know what's all-natural? Poisonous berries and 'shrooms. — Karen Alpert

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

Onto Chastity Bjornsen's car radio came the drawling irreverent brass and subhip syncopation of a Herb Alpert arrangement, which Doc realized with growing horror was a cover of Ohio Express's "Yummy Yummy Yummy." He — Thomas Pynchon

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. — Herb Alpert

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now. — 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 confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure. — Herb Alpert

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose. — 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

My rugrats give me gifts that say "#1 Mom" on them and I'm like, bwhahahahaha, joke's on you, I'm more like the #1,297,279 Mom. But they truly think I'm the best mom on earth. And that's all that matters. — Karen 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

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 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 President Obama really does get the value of the arts. — Herb Alpert

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience. — 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

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

I wanted to be able to talk about my work at the dinner table and hold my head up on Sundays when my wife and I led our children into the Brentwood Presbyterian Church, where I was an elder. I did have a wild side, and I showed it every time I walked through the front door and my littlest child, Carrie Beth, made me dance to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass's hit song "Tijuana Sauerkraut. — Dick Van Dyke

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

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

Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do what
Alpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out of a job overnight. — Luke Rhinehart

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

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass. — Herb Alpert

Sister. She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child. — Barbara Alpert

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

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

A Maven is someone who wants to solve other people's problems, generally by solving his own," Alpert said, which is true, although what I suspect is that the opposite is also true, that a Maven is someone who solves his own problems - his own emotional needs - by solving other people's problems. — Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

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

Instrumental music can spread the international language. — Herb Alpert