Chuck Mangione Quotes

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.

I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

I love recording music.

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

I can't stand making records.

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.

I like to sing, and I like to make records - and that part is fun.

I'm a studio rat.

My first love is making records, and whatever's necessary in order for me to achieve that, I'll learn how to do it.

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

We're always recording music, writing songs.