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I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.
I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
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.
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.
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.
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
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.
This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.
I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico ... not so much the music, but the spirit.
We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show.
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Instrumental music can spread the international language.
I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.
You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.
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.
It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.
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.
