I find I work best as a reactor, trying to portray something on a screen musically. If I were a boxer, I'd be a counter-puncher. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Blake Edwards has set up an extraordinary combination of moods in 'Peter Gunn.' When you stop to analyze it, you can't find the boundaries where the music stops and the show takes over. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
In 'Charade,' there was a big fight. George Kennedy was playing one of his first big heavy roles; he had a hook for a… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Bassoon is not an easy instrument to play and to pick it up and play it like a flute or a saxophone is quite… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I had no idea 'Moon River' would do so well. I was too busy working to think about it. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
When I play 'Newhart' in concert, it always gets a hand, right from the very beginning. To me, 'Newhart' is a hit. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Some scenes cry out for a certain kind of treatment. The kind we're conditioned by years of film-watching to expect. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I've done entire scores for I don't know how many films and series. I never kept track; I suppose it's up in the hundreds. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Jazz is capable of doing much more than depicting the dope fiend and the drunk and the slinky gal. In our show there are… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
