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Chuck Mangione Quotes

Type: Musician Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes Date of Birth: November 29, 1940 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Chuck Mangione Related Authors: Loretta Lynn Lenny Kravitz Elvis Presley Paul Simon Billy Joel Bob Dylan Little Richard Don Was

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me: Chuck Mangione 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 As a young kid I used to wear a baseball cap, but in 1969, a hat like one I have now was given to me as a present from some good friends. Chuck Mangione 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 Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from. Chuck Mangione 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 Dizzy Gillespie was a great influence. Chuck Mangione For me, anyhow, there's something kinda special about the Quartet; in one sense the music is very organised and yet in another sense it's very loose. Chuck Mangione For me, lifting the people up, making them enjoy what we're doing is as important as it is for me to play the kind of music I want to play. Chuck Mangione I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people. Chuck Mangione I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years. Chuck Mangione 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 I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing. Chuck Mangione I have been recording for five decades now. Chuck Mangione 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 I remember, when I grew up, going to dances was just a lot of fun. But when people get together now, music is the first thing that happens. Chuck Mangione 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 I think people today are hearing music that I recorded thirty years ago and do not listen to it as if it is something old but just something good. Chuck Mangione I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea. Chuck Mangione I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music. Chuck Mangione In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz. Chuck Mangione 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 and jazz musicians would develop into my repertoire. Jazz standards like these had great melodies written by great composers. Chuck Mangione Music is meant to be a beautiful thing. Chuck Mangione 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 My goal was never to sell many records. Chuck Mangione My music has always been strong in melodic content. Chuck Mangione 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 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 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 Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live. Chuck Mangione There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right. Chuck Mangione To do it always right, that is what music is to me. Chuck Mangione To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it. Chuck Mangione We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides. Chuck Mangione What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image. Chuck Mangione Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best. Chuck Mangione 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

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