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My music has always been strong in melodic content. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

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Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

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The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

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There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

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To do it always right, that is what music is to me. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

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To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

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We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

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We became the songs we wrote. ↗

— Barry Mann

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It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

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