Chuck Mangione Quotes

Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.
Chuck Mangione

Music, Working, Rather

With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.
Chuck Mangione

Strong, Together, Working

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:
Chuck Mangione

Year, Pleasant, Rewarding

A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
Chuck Mangione

Beautiful, Mistakes, Passion

As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.
Chuck Mangione

Love, Music, School

Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
Chuck Mangione

Music, Free, Unless

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.
Chuck Mangione

Music, Strong, Strive

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
Chuck Mangione

Joy, Millions, Glad

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.
Chuck Mangione

Last, Hand, Number

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
Chuck Mangione

Mind, Hard, Different

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.
Chuck Mangione

Find, Difficult, Playing

I have been recording for five decades now.
Chuck Mangione

Five, Recording, Decades

I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.
Chuck Mangione

Made, Danger, Watch

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.
Chuck Mangione

Music, Put, Reason

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
Chuck Mangione

Work, Blessed, Two

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
Chuck Mangione

Music, Enjoy, Write

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
Chuck Mangione

Two, Again, Started

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.
Chuck Mangione

Music, Beautiful, Meant

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.
Chuck Mangione

School, Together, Play

My goal was never to sell many records.
Chuck Mangione

Goal, Sell, Records

My music has always been strong in melodic content.
Chuck Mangione

Music, Strong, Content

Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.
Chuck Mangione

Music, Honest, Talking

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.
Chuck Mangione

School, Made, Musicians

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.
Chuck Mangione

Night, Road, Stop

Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live.
Chuck Mangione

Live, Fact, Loved

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Nationality: American

Born: November 29, 1940

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