Showing posts with label Chuck Mangione Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chuck Mangione Quotes. Show all posts
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
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best." - Chuck Mangione
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"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
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides." - Chuck Mangione
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"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
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"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
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live." - Chuck Mangione
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"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
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"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
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"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
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"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
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"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
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music." - Chuck Mangione
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea." - Chuck Mangione
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"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
Chuck Mangione Quotes
"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz." - Chuck Mangione
