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“Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Beautiful Quotes
#Music Is Quotes
#Beautiful Things Quotes
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“I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Music Quotes
#Believe Quotes
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“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.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Ideas Quotes
#People Quotes
#Labels Quotes
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“In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Two Quotes
#Albums Quotes
#Jazz Quotes
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“1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me”
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Chuck Mangione
#Years Quotes
#Pleasant Quotes
#Rewarding Experiences Quotes
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“I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.”
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Chuck Mangione
#People Quotes
#Joy Quotes
#Glad Quotes
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“I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Difficult Quotes
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“I have been recording for five decades now.”
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Chuck Mangione
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“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.”
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Chuck Mangione
#School Quotes
#Opportunity Quotes
#Musical Quotes
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“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.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Strong Quotes
#Interesting Quotes
#Ingredients Quotes
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“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.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Song Quotes
#Keys Quotes
#Play Quotes
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“I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Writing Quotes
#People Quotes
#Listening Quotes
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“My goal was never to sell many records.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Goal Quotes
#Records Quotes
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“I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Blessed Quotes
#Player Quotes
#Two Quotes
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“I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Music Quotes
#Hands Quotes
#Years Quotes
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“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.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Strong Quotes
#People Quotes
#Working Together Quotes
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“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.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Beautiful Quotes
#Mistake Quotes
#Passion Quotes
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“My music has always been strong in melodic content.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Strong Quotes
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“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.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Brother Quotes
#School Quotes
#Play Quotes
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“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.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Fall Quotes
#Together Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“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.”
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Chuck Mangione
#School Quotes
#Class Quotes
#Musician Quotes
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“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.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Talking Quotes
#People Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“To do it always right, that is what music is to me.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Music Is Quotes
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“Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Writing Quotes
#Trying Quotes
#Strings Quotes
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“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.”
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Chuck Mangione
#Thinking Quotes
#Albums Quotes
#Watches Quotes
