Herb Alpert

“I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.”

“There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.”

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

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

“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.”

“Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.”

“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 like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.”