Herb Alpert Quotes

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.

That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love, and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good.

But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'

There's nothing better than seeing people you know being able to work and support their families. Knowing you have a little hand in it? Now, that really makes you feel good.

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

I feel like a lot of people can relate to my music.

People who get together, regardless of other structures, will find something in common. They are bound to. That was the Pete Seeger let's-all-sing theory.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.

It's never fun to do it by yourself. It's good to have other people that are on the same path as you. It's nice to have that in common and be able to converse with them. It's cool to share that.

Time flies when you're changing the world.

I believe when two people are in the same profession, they understand each other better.

Whatever I talk about onstage is just my story. My fan base is broad... We all have the same mom; it's just that ours has an accent.

There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.

I just want to do something that I feel makes a difference.

With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.

To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless.

I think bathrooms are where everyone bonds. That is the bonding place.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

I wanted to find people who were like me, and I did, in the people I was reading.

When I get the opportunity to do what I love while also taking a stance on things I believe in, it's a very beautiful thing.