Chuck Mangione famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.
-- Chuck Mangione

#Beautiful #Music Is #Beautiful Things
I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
-- Chuck Mangione

#Music #Believe
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

#Ideas #People #Labels
In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
-- Chuck Mangione

#Two #Albums #Jazz
1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me
-- Chuck Mangione

#Years #Pleasant #Rewarding Experiences
I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
-- Chuck Mangione

#People #Joy #Glad
I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.
-- Chuck Mangione

#Difficult
I have been recording for five decades now.
-- 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

#School #Opportunity #Musical
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

#Strong #Interesting #Ingredients
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

#Song #Keys #Play
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
-- Chuck Mangione

#Writing #People #Listening
My goal was never to sell many records.
-- Chuck Mangione

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

#Blessed #Player #Two
I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.
-- Chuck Mangione

#Music #Hands #Years
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 #People #Working Together
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 #Mistake #Passion
My music has always been strong in melodic content.
-- Chuck Mangione

#Strong
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

#Brother #School #Play
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

#Fall #Together #Way
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 #Class #Musician
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

#Talking #People #Way
To do it always right, that is what music is to me.
-- Chuck Mangione

#Music Is
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
-- Chuck Mangione

#Writing #Trying #Strings
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

#Thinking #Albums #Watches

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