Chuck Mangione Quotes

I'm not an intellectual composer.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

I know when I sit with my band members and we're playing back a song that we've done, I know that they're experiencing it in a completely different way and hearing stuff that they're alerted to because the way the interpret the world is through their ears. Mine is through my eyes.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.