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Chuck Mangione

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CHUCK D Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
TAMARA TUNIE No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other thi...
ROBERT LYND We play standard pop/rock music. I write most of the music, and bring it to the band so we can shape...
BRAD CALLOW A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
HERBERT HOOVER May all your labors be in vein.
OLD ENGLISH SAYING In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
HACK WILSON There's too many rad things to stick in your butt besides a living animal.
BLINK 182 A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
JOHN LENNON I am going to try to continue to help the community. We do so many other things besides write ticket...
CHRIS GREEN We describe ourselves as contemporary variety. We're pretty wide-ranging -- hits, oldies, classic ro...
JEFF PETERSEN Council Rock has been a great program for many years. It's a standard in our league we all shoot for...
DONNA NICHOLSON If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
JOHN LENNON All these films are very dramatic, very emotional, but they happen to be about some really important...
RACHEL WEISZ It's a thematic film. The lack in dialogue is replaced through themes and musical play.
FELIPE SOARES The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - ...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lew...
D. A. PENNEBAKER We wanted to incorporate things that the students were learning about in their classrooms and tie in...
JAN SULLIVAN Chuck appreciates things that will last a lifetime.
CLARK WOLF Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of beb...
QUINCY JONES Students do not have many role models who use language well. They are very much into rap and movies ...
MARILYN JACKSON Chuck has been instrumental in Westwood One's and Metro Networks' daily operations for more than thi...
PETER KOSANN Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a...
CHUCK MANGIONE What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the for...
CHUCK MANGIONE There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have wor...
CHUCK MANGIONE It became a trademark. It's not glued to my head, but I'm very comfortable with it.
CHUCK MANGIONE Program directors were looking for something different to play in between the Bee Gees. I never imag...
CHUCK MANGIONE I had just seen the movie 'Young Man With a Horn' about jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. So I told him...
CHUCK MANGIONE Melody is an important part of all the music I've written. I think that's why it has been so success...
CHUCK MANGIONE 1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:
CHUCK MANGIONE My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually formi...
CHUCK MANGIONE Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Ea...
CHUCK MANGIONE With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working...
CHUCK MANGIONE Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from a conceptual confusion that in turn ...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL I just told them to turn and then find the glass. We were too quick at times, rushing things. We'd j...
SARA SCHOPPER As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play mu...
RANDY OWEN Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half an...
BONNIE RAITT I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on s...
GAVIN O'CONNOR My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I ...
ALVIN LEE Luckily, I'm doing other things besides just modeling, because frankly, I'm a little bored with it.
REBECCA ROMIJN STAMOS Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are prett...
IAN ANDERSON We went in and came out without a victory. We wanted to focus on doing all the little things we didn...
COURTNEY LEE Coach Orr is a great role model. I wouldn't want to play for any other college coach besides him.
GRANT BILLMEIER For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy an...
SAMUEL BUTLER In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that sat...
ALFRED MARSHALL He just was the most humble rock star I have ever met, besides having the best hands of any bass pla...
SAMMY HAGAR We ended up singing all of those things. People in Southern music think ... [our music] is too conte...
JUDY MARTIN As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We l...
WAYNE KRAMER The intelligent use of contemporary music in film has an enormous audience.
ROBERT STIGWOOD Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.
NORMAN MACCAIG I found a lot of other people who were interested in creating a greater tennis presence in Hamilton ...
HELEN MOSER PETERSEN When Chuck would get some bubble gum in he would save it until Halloween to give out to the kids, .....
JEANNE MILLER Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
RITCHIE BLACKMORE Good will. Positive community interaction. There's a lot of other things out there that mean a lot b...
TONY ASARO I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice form...
JAMES BOSWELL We have also agreed that in other places there may be a need to manipulate ways they (elephants) use...
RUDI AARDE Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
ANTHONY BRANDT Other things may change us, but we start and end with family
ANTHONY BRANDT My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.
BRITTANY HOWARD It's Chris Rock. He separates our show from all the other shows that use that device.
ALI LEROI A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each...
DAVE FINKEL And, you know, we're looking at some broad themes for the convention, stronger at home, respected in...
JEANNE SHAHEEN Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a litt...
RONNIE JAMES DIO A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE Politics: Poly.
MANY Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?
BON SCOTT It's a real mind game. There are so many crevices, bends and directions in the play, ... There are t...
RICHARD MCMILLAN There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.
DIZZY GILLESPIE We play physical. We take pride in not giving up many points. We expect great things for this year.
JOE KIRK When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. ...
RICHARD GREENBERG They've had trouble deciding on a name. But they're good. They play a lot of rock from the late '70s...
LONNIE SANDOVAL Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE We all used to go down to watch Chuck Thome hit the ball. Then, around 1940, his son Art turned into...
JOE STOWELL It's not just about scoring. I was out there passing the ball and getting steals, doing other things...
JAMEER NELSON Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music aren...
MARVIN SAPP [We play] rock the way it was meant to be played; we're rock purists.
JAKE HAWS Our aim was to try to shed some more light on a possible cause for breast cancer, and we were able t...
CUNO UITERWAAL When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the ...
EDDIE VEDDER Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had jus...
JOE COCKER The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditio...
DAN CASTELLANETA Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi wo...
JANICE STOCKIGT We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.
BRUCE JOHNSTON We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don'...
FRED FRITH We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.
STONE GOSSARD It won't be anything I do. We will play as many kids as we can. We will try to develop as much depth...
BART BRUNER We use industry standard RSS so that anyone can subscribe. You do not even need a Mac.
STEVE JOBS Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' ...
ALEX WINSTON I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style...
LAURA MVULA Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whate...
JUICY J My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's ...
TED ALLEN We know that the pistol and holster are missing and we expect there may have been a handful of other...
JEREMY SOLOMON If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we&...
DUSTIN DIAMOND Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.
JAMES PATTERSON Coach calls it blue-collar defense. We can't outscore other teams. That's not how we play. We have t...
AUSTIN BROOKS We have so many guys that can play in different spots. It's always nice to have guys who can play di...
GREG HELLHAKE Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music a...
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CHUCK NORRIS Good things happen to those who hustle.
CHUCK NOLL In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.
CHUCK YEAGER There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up...
CHUCK SCHUMER Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibili...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I co...
CHUCK BROWN You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the ...
CHUCK YEAGER Don't let the same dog bite you twice.
CHUCK BERRY I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up.
CHUCK BERRY We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like gr...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the ...
CHUCK NORRIS Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a h...
CHUCK NORRIS The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never...
CHUCK NOLL My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issu...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagn...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened...
CHUCK BERRY In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying th...
CHUCK CLOSE Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews.
CHUCK BERRY