Chuck Mangione Quotes

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

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

We'll be performing songs I couldn't get out of town without playing, as well as stuff you've never heard before. It's music that will make people happy. - Chuck Mangione

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides. - 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

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

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

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