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"I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play."
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"We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals."
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"The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game."
"You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game."
"So, to come In with a set routine it's something I've never believed in. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit."
"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."
"This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music."
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