Chuck Mangione Quotes

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

Music is the silence between the notes.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

My pure love is playing music.

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

Music is the most amount of joy or good I can do in the world.

Music isn't a competition.

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Music is your guide.

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.