I think people today are hearing music that I recorded thirty years ago and do not listen to it as if it is something old but just something good.
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I had just seen the movie 'Young Man With a Horn' about jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. So I told him I'd take one of those.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
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
My goal was never to sell many records.
Chuck Mangione
Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.
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
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