Herb Alpert
Instrumental music can spread the international language.
In spite of everything that's happened to me being a musician, playing trumpet provided me with greatest satisfaction.
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.
I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.
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.
I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
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.
I was a record producer and songwriter in the record buisiness and I had the horn.
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
I took about a month long trip through Europe in the early part of '69 and realized didn't have my priority systems straight.
I remember in '66, we had and still hold the record for most albums in top 100: we had 5 in the top 20 at one time.
I purposely wanted to go to Mexico City, to be in that environment and to see what it was like recording in another studio.
I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.
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.
I mean, gee whiz, I'm real lucky to touch so many people's lives. And if I give someone pleasure, it gives me pleasure.
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
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.
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.
I didn't know what I wanted at the time, I just knew I needed to get away from it and get an overview of my life.