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The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Audience
Loyal
Seems
Japanese
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It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Clean
Cleaning
Noise
Tape
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The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Lyrical
Singing
Trumpets
Trumpet
Instrument
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Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.
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Brass
Mexican
Shuffle
Turning
Turning Point
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Instrumental music can spread the international language.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Music
International
Jazz
Language
Spread
Instrumental
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I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Eight
Practice
Day Every Day Doing
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I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Classical Music
Jazz
Music Jazz Like
Music Like Listen
Classical
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I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
Herb Alpert / Musician
My Own
Pleasure
Confess
Music My Own Own
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I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.
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Digital
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I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Art
President
Thinking
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We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Break
Big Break
Finally
Sullivan
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I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.
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Art
Art Is
Power Of Now
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You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Artist
Different
Records
Record Business
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You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Great Lyric
Melody
Tough
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I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Music
Morning
Exercise
Stretching
Wake Up
Exercises
Horn
Pick
Wake
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I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Bravado
Mexico
Sound
Taken
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This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Brazil
Brazilian Music
Records
Brazilian
Period
Infected
Producing
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I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Adventurous
Guy
Miles
Davis
Listed
Loose
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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.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Quality
Felt
Integrity
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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 / Musician
Kind
Missing
Play
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There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Beneficial
Interesting
Live In The Moment
Thinking
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Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Circles
Jazz
Player
Considered
Clifford
Trumpet
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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 / Musician
Feelings
Jaded
Littles
Nice
Spin
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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 / Musician
Appreciate
Differences
Thinking
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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 / Musician
Car
Listening
People
Album
Certain Way
Finish
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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.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Albums
Fabulous
Itchy
Offers
Tempted
World
Album
Perform
Reaction
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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 / Musician
Athlete
Function
Method
Musician
Perform
Designed
Exercises
Play Music
Shape
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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 / Musician
Interesting
Musician
Records
Song
Musicians
Producing
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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 / Musician
Artist
Radio
Selling
Song
Thinking
Hawk
Nearest
Record Store
Store
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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 / Musician
Art
Moments
Painting
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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.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Digital
Magnetic
Musical
Numbers
Sound
Tape
Opposed
Sounds
Stored
Transferred
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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 / Musician
Couple
Feel Good
Hundred
Might
Million
Old-Timer
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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 / Musician
Brass
Contact
Crowds
Lighting
Although
Cigarettes
Connection
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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 / Musician
Men
Creative
Thinking
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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.
Herb Alpert / Musician
Bass
Cutting
Edges
Long
Sound
Speed
Cut
Jagged
Low
Microscope
Sounds
Swinging
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