Chuck Mangione Quotes

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.

Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you've ever heard.

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

When I'm drumming, I'm not thinking about much.

We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.

The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar on 'Mystery Train.' You're not gonna get that in a computer. You're gonna want a live room, you're gonna wanna bounce the tape, you're gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin' off of each other.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that's how we connect with our audiences.

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.

After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive.

I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

When I'm in the studio, I just let it rip. That's my process. I get in the booth, and whatever is on my mind at the time, I just go off and say it.

We always record with the whole band. That's key to capturing the feel, especially trying to get a good basic track.

I believe I'm an artist that just shines live - it's just something that happens.

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

Our recordings, you feel that it's been, not labored, but you feel that it's been constructed in a way where sometimes it's hard for us to create the feeling that this was done in a room.

There are things I can accomplish in the studio via manipulation on the computer or some kind of effect that are nearly impossible to do live. On the flip side, there are some things that happen live that can't be pulled off in the studio.