Herb Alpert Quotes

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

Herb Alpert

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• We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Problem
  • Tough
  • Congratulations

• Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Body
  • Tough
  • Skating

• I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Best
  • Tough

• It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Learn
  • Mistakes
  • Tough

• There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Things
  • Sound
  • Melody

• Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Respect
  • Like
  • Courage

• I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Country
  • Home
  • Player

• I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Tough

• Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

  

  Dan Rather
  • She
  • Woman
  • Texas

• It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Focus
  • Tough
  • Butterfly

• I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • God
  • Game
  • Tough

• I'm a huge fan of Kate Beckinsale. Sigourney Weaver gets me excited. Angelina Jolie... There's just so many women that do 'tough' really well.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Women
  • Fan
  • Excited

• Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

  

  Nate Silver
  • High
  • Tough
  • Walk

• This modeling thing, it's pretty easy, but actually it's also really tough.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Pretty
  • Easy
  • Tough

• My training has always been really tough. I've always worked hard. I've always been very committed to my training and focused on my workout.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Always
  • Training
  • Tough

• The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Wife
  • Tough
  • Clothing

• Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Justice
  • Talk
  • Tough

• It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Children
  • Hate
  • Pay

• We have to be really, really, really tough right now. This is a very serious and deadly time.

  

  Ann Wright
  • Time
  • Serious
  • Tough

• Wherever inspiration comes from, it's like I'll hear a melody and chords, almost a rough structure of the whole thing [song]. I'll just hear it and chase what's in my head. The rest comes from jamming with band, improvising, seeing what comes up as well. I'll come up with it off the top of my head, catch it, sing and hum, and if something is missing, just jam, and that's the [songwriting] process.

  

  Chris Wyse
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Songwriting

• Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Silence
  • Escape
  • Gesture

• I didn't try to hit him. I just tried to make my pitch and the ball went out of my hand.

  

  Carlos Zambrano
  • Him
  • Ball
  • Hit

• You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Tough
  • Melody
  • Sells