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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you. "

" The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience. "

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

" 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. "

" Instrumental music can spread the international language. "

" Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "