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Henry Mancini

Profession : Composer

Birth : April 16, 1924

I just think the time and where I was brought up had a great deal to do in giving me the ambition to kind of get out and do something and not go into the steel mill.

Henry Mancini

I would like a shot at Broadway.

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Sometimes memorable music doesn't necessarily have to be a hit.

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When I play 'Newhart' in concert, it always gets a hand, right from the very beginning. To me, 'Newhart' is a hit.

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

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I have an Otari with a Korg T2 Midi synthesizer, a drum machine and a few effects units.

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Cancer... changed my whole work attitude.

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

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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.

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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.

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I just write when the bell rings. I don't have time to wait for inspiration.

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

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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.

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It's very difficult to be funny musically. I think I achieved It with 'The Pink Panther.'

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

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Hopefully the music of the future will not be all electronic. There is a place for it if it is used sparingly.

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Music forced into the air you breathe is an invasion of privacy!

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Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.

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

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Basically, I'm a melodic writer.

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