Herb Alpert
You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.
With tape, you capture the impact, but you bring in some other elements. Sometimes those elements are good and sometimes, they're not.
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.
We were like a trial for the digital process, and I found that in that particular timeframe, there were too many problems with it.
We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show.
We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.
This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.
There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
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.
The last few years I've been using co-producers.
The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.
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.
Now that marketing strategy is such that, outside the packaging might be just beautiful and inside it might be just nothing!
No, I am into great musicians... like to surround myself with them... I like to pad my deck!
Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.
Latin instruments have always been a part in my music, but I never felt a closeness to music from south of the border.
It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.
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.
It was strange because didn't want to deceive anyone... we weren't a band from Mexico; I didn't want to be an imposter or living up to an image people had of me or the group.