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Herb Alpert

"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."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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Herb Alpert
"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."

Numbers

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Herb Alpert
"The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument."

Singing

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Herb Alpert
"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."

World

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Herb Alpert
"Instrumental music can spread the international language."

Music

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

Play

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

Music

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Herb Alpert
"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."

People

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Herb Alpert
"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."

Jazz

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Herb Alpert
"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."

Music

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Herb Alpert
"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."

Work

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