Chuck Mangione Quotes
I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
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If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.
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One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit our memories of his excellence.
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We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.
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I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.
