Henry Mancini

I would like a shot at Broadway.

— Henry Mancini

Success is not usually easy or fast.

— Henry Mancini

I don't have a trunk of manuscripts.

— Henry Mancini

I play a very streamlined piano.

— Henry Mancini

Basically, I'm a melodic writer.

— Henry Mancini

I just love what I do.

— Henry Mancini

I became a melodic writer after 'Gunn.'

— Henry Mancini

Cancer... changed my whole work attitude.

— Henry Mancini

I score everything by hand on manuscript paper and then make copies.

— Henry Mancini

I don't know if I've ever written a song that wasn't on assignment.

— Henry Mancini

Themes on some TV shows are overdone. That 'Playhouse 90' theme music was an example.

— Henry Mancini

Oh, I'd been writing cartoonish music pretty much all along.

— Henry Mancini

I wanted to be up there with all those names like Max Steiner.

— Henry Mancini

I wanted to write picture music ever since I was a kid.

— Henry Mancini

The basic problem with young people entering show business is that they are in a hurry.

— Henry Mancini

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

— Henry Mancini

Amplification of guitars revolutionized the popular music scene. Youngsters look for quick fame and big money with amplified guitars and working with…

— Henry Mancini

People love to hear a guy who is really good on his instrument. They love to watch him go.

— Henry Mancini

I compose the music according to the nature of the show. 'Peter Gunn's' focus was violence so that was my key.

— Henry Mancini

I used to raise the devil when my father made me practice the flute and my mother made me take piano lessons.

— Henry Mancini

My wife and I never squabbled in front of the children. We never touched each other except in love.

— Henry Mancini

My father was a steelworker who'd come over from Abruzzi, in Italy. He played in the band and he encouraged me to…

— Henry Mancini

I read magazines and reviews. If consensus says something is good, I'll get it and see what's going on.

— Henry Mancini

I was never In a restaurant until after I left home. My mother came from Abruzzi and they're noted for their great…

— Henry Mancini

With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and…

— Henry Mancini

As a screen composer or film-music writer, I need something that I can work with in the body of the score. Like…

— Henry Mancini

If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a…

— Henry Mancini

The great thing about a record is it frees your imagination; it gives your eyes a rest and lets your mind wander.…

— Henry Mancini

When someone asks me to do a score, I look at the picture two or three times. I never watch the rushes…

— Henry Mancini

A good theme - like the 'Pink Panther' or 'Baby Elephant Walk' - can work all the way through the picture, which…

— Henry Mancini

Some producers hang-on to that old cliche that if the audience hears the music, it is no good. I say this is…

— Henry Mancini

Blake Edwards has set up an extraordinary combination of moods in 'Peter Gunn.' When you stop to analyze it, you can't find…

— Henry Mancini

Music is constantly developing and changing.

— Henry Mancini

If a film is not doing well, a record company will not take a chance with the score.

— Henry Mancini

I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.

— Henry Mancini

Most everything I've ever written has .been done to 'assignment.'

— Henry Mancini

It takes different mindsets to do different things.

— Henry Mancini

Erroll Garner is one of the few musicians I believe has a sense of humor in his music.

— Henry Mancini

I very rarely write anything before what I see what I'm writing for.

— Henry Mancini

You're molded by the period you were brought up in.

— Henry Mancini