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" Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best. "
Chuck Mangione
Best
Write
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" 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. "
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" 1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me: "
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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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" 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. "
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" I have been recording for five decades now. "
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" In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz. "
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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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" Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live. "
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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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Passion
Beautiful
Perfection
" My music has always been strong in melodic content. "
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Strong
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" I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing. "
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Find
Difficult
" Music is meant to be a beautiful thing. "
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Music
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" We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides. "
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Standard
Themes
Play
" 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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Strong
You
Working Together
" 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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Music
Love
More
" 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
Ideas
Want
Music
" 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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Doing
Music
People
" I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years. "
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Over
Number
Years
" 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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Fall
Way
Together
" 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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I Am
Joy
Mind
" I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people. "
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I Am
Glad
Am
" 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. "
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Performance
Care
" My goal was never to sell many records. "
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Goal
Sell
Records
" 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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Think
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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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Work
Blessed
Jazz
" I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music. "
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Enjoy
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" To do it always right, that is what music is to me. "
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Right
Always
Me