Stan Getz

"I had a real ball doing Apasionado. We took our time. It was done in three days. I never took that long before. Well, we couldn't figure out what material to play. I got together with Herb [Alpert] and Eddie del Barrio--the composer and synth player who I'm taking to Europe. I went up to Herb's house every day for three weeks and sort of put the skeleton together. That was the preparation we had."

"When you see the results of playing an hour or two for people and they're happy about it and they enjoy it, that's quite an honor to be given--to make people happy for awhile."

"I thought about bettering the music, always trying to become good at the music. Which you never do, because what you hear in your head is better than what you do, always."

"[When I taught at Stanford] I spent the whole time trying to convince these kids that the main thing that makes jazz so good is that it's the expression of the individual" Don't belittle your own individual selves, stop imitating after awhile. Alright, you could tell that I played like Lester Young, but who you love you sound like for awhile. You've got to let yourself go on to your own thing."--Stan Getz, Cash Box, June 22, 1991

Herb Alpert contacted Getz and suggested they make a record together.

"[Jazz musicians] don't want to take something and play it because it's already been done. But I feel that music can be classic, too. Just nice music. Jazz music is supposed to be democratic music. Each man has a say in a jazz quartet. But they all must contribute to the whole. Egos have to be kept to a minimum. But you know jazz musicians. They're crying for attention. They always want something different."

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