Chuck Mangione Quotes

I only want my work to make people happy.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

I like to show love in a way that will bring a smile or a tear to viewers.

When you walk off the stage, I think the end point is that you enjoyed yourself. I get to say that almost every time - either I made a few new fans or something resonated.

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.

That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love, and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing about it.

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

I'm very fortunate that I get to make people smile by creating.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

I need to write to be happy.

When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.

It's a privilege to do what I do for a living - to take people out of their miserable day, or to educate somebody, or make somebody laugh, or fall in love with an idea. How good is that? And I get paid to do it!

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.