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Herb Alpert Biography

Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American jazz musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. Alpert is also a recording industry executive, the "A" of A&M Records, a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold to PolyGram. Alpert also has created abstract expressionist paintings and sculpture over two decades, which are publicly displayed on occasion. Alpert and his wife, Lani Hall, are substantial philanthropists through the operation of the Herb Alpert Foundation.

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I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.

Creative, Jazz, Listening, Men, Musicians, Thinking

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

Instrumental, Jazz, Language, Music, Spread

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.

Cut, Cutting, Deep, Long, Look, Sound

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.

Couple, Feel Good, Feels, Good, Might, Sense

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.

Appreciate, Differences, Human, Takes, Think, Thinking

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

Adventurous, Guy, Let, Listed, Miles

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

Back, Come, Felt, Integrity, Quality

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Exercise, Morning, Music, Pick, Stretching

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.

Car, Certain, Know, Listening, People, Way

I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.

Art, Arts, President, Think, Thinking, Value

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.

Interesting, Like, Music, Musician, Song, Songs

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.

Feelings, Jaded, Littles, Nice, Somebody

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

Artist, Different, Record, Records

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.

Artist, Like, Song, Think, Thinking, Used

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

Art, Art Is, Arts, General, Like, Power Of Now

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

Instrument, Lyrical, Singing, Trumpet, Trumpets

It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

Clean, Cleaning, Noise, Tape

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.

Digital, Musical, Numbers, Sound, Tape

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

Great Lyric, Lyric, Melody, Sell, Tough

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

Audience, Japanese, Loyal, Seems