Quotes
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.
I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
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.
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
And then we started repeating the same places... staying in same hotels. It got a little boring. I needed a change... a chance to get away from it.
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.
A friend, Ted Keeps - an engineer - happened to have a tape of sounds of bullring in Tijuana and overlayed it onto the tape, and we became the Tijuana Brass.
We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
We had such a great reaction from the album in different places that were relaunching it coincide with 10 day stint of concerts i'm doing at the Almeida Theatre in Islington at the end of July.
These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.