Quotes by Chuck Mangione

About Chuck Mangione:

Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer.
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Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

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

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

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

Chuck Mangione

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

Chuck Mangione

I have been recording for five decades now.

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

My goal was never to sell many records.

Chuck Mangione

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

Chuck Mangione

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

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

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

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

Chuck Mangione

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

Chuck Mangione

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chuck Mangione

Author Bio

  • NameChuck Mangione
  • DescriptionAmerican jazz musician
  • BornNovember 29, 1940
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionConductor; Trumpeter