Chuck Mangione Quotes

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

I believe it's possible to have hit songs and popular music that's recorded by human beings.

There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins and the Hoagy Carmichaels, the Harold Arlens, Cole Porter.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

It's a total big difference between a person that got lyrics and a person that can make hit singles. I'm a person that can make some hit singles. I'm not in no booth trying to be a lyrical genius. I'm preparing to make me some singles, and as I develop as a man, then they'll respect my emcee skills.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what I write. I think it is a pretty broad category.

I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.