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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.


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.


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.


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.


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


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


This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.


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


The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.


The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.


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


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


I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.


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


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


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


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


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


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.