Herb Alpert American Musician Quotations

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I was obligated to do a bunch of concerts and a television show, but something in my stomach was telling me this wasn't what I wanted to do.

With tape, you capture the impact, but you bring in some other elements. Sometimes those elements are good and sometimes, they're not.

We were like a trial for the digital process, and I found that in that particular timeframe, there were too many problems with it.

I never thought of myself as a trumpet player in the traditional sense: I never played in a big band... I didn't struggle the normal way.