Top 31 Quotes by 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.

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

My music has always been strong in melodic content.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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