Herb Alpert Quotations

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

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

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.

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

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

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.

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.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

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.