Quotes
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.
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.