109 Quotes by Henry Mancini

The Pavarotti and Galway albums were a lot of fun because I got to work with two of the best 'voices' in the world.

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.

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

Sometimes people can see a movie of mine and not know until the credits roll that I wrote the score. That makes me feel good, that I can get out of that box every once in a while.

You know, I started in movies a long time ago, and once in awhile I'm taken aback. Sometimes one of my things will come on - they use my things as background music all the time, in somebody else's arrangements and It catches my ear.

My profession has never demanded that I be mobbed by fans.

Stravinsky influenced film music in general - those stabbing chords and rhythms from 'The Rite of Spring.'

I don't usually take a picture if I don't like it. I have that choice. But some pictures I like more than others.

Music has been taken over in this country by personalities and dominated by rock 'n' roll. There's been a synthesizer invasion and it's not going to go away.