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Chuck Mangione

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 29, 1940

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

Chuck Mangione

To do it always right, that is what music is to me.

Chuck Mangione

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

Chuck Mangione

I have been recording for five decades now.

Chuck Mangione

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Chuck Mangione

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chuck Mangione

My music has always been strong in melodic content.

Chuck Mangione