I dont think radio is selling records like they used to. Theyd hawk the song and hawk the artist and youd get so excited, youd stop your car and go into the nearest record store. – Herb Alpert
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. – Herb Alpert
When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, thats the time to try to let other people know about it. – Herb Alpert
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor – all conductors are white – ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. – Ray Stannard Baker