Herb Alpert Quotes

I love the music business very much.

Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.

We've been lucky. Even as a young, local-level band, we were able to rise out of the local scene without having any debt, without having signed the wrong deal with the wrong manager or the wrong booker or a small label.

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.

Doing things in my day was simple: you either signed to a big label or you signed to a very small label, and you worked with that one, and then they eventually signed you on to a big one.