Chuck Mangione

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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