Chuck Mangione Quotes

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.

I've always loved music. I've worked on music and written music, but, it wasn't until I was actually on the road full time with WWE that I put my first album out.

I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.

Limp Bizkit is my main priority, but my side project, Black Light Burns, is still a labor of love. We have a record written, so we'll see when that comes out. When we tour, we go out in a van and trailer with me driving.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.

The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.