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Top 20 Chuck Mangione Quotes (2025 Update)

Chuck Mangione Quote: “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.”

1. “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 Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “I have been recording for five decades now.”

3. “I have been recording for five decades now.”

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “Whether it’s string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.”

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

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.”

5. “I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.”

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me.”

6. “1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me.”

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “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.”

7. “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 Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Chuck Mangione Quote: “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.”

10. “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 Quote: “Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.”

11. “Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.”

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “I find it very difficult to compose when I’m not playing.”

12. “I find it very difficult to compose when I’m not playing.”

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “I don’t believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.”

14. “I don’t believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.”

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.”

15. “I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.”

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “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.”

16. “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 Quote: “To do it always right, that is what music is to me.”

17. “To do it always right, that is what music is to me.”

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “My music has always been strong in melodic content.”

18. “My music has always been strong in melodic content.”

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “My goal was never to sell many records.”

19. “My goal was never to sell many records.”

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.”

20. “I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.”

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.”

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

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.”

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

— Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Chuck Mangione Quote: “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.”

24. “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

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