Best quotes by Henry Mancini on Music

Checkout quotes by Henry Mancini on Music

• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ Film music, over the years, has taken from everybody.

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• ‟ If I'm writing songs for a country-Western picture, I have to know about country music.

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

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

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• ‟ Too many schools across the country have cut back heavily on their music curricula.

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

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• ‟ Technique is superficial. The method used in applying technique is what gives music its character.

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• ‟ In 'Charade,' there was a big fight. George Kennedy was playing one of his first big heavy roles; he had a hook for a hand, and he was real ugly. Cary Grant was Cary Grant. They were on a slanted roof, a very exciting fight, and we agreed there shouldn't be any music, just the grunts and the action.

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• ‟ Music is constantly developing and changing.

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• ‟ Some of the prettiest music I've done was in films that really were not a smash. Your music fares as the film does.

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

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• ‟ Some producers hang-on to that old cliche that if the audience hears the music, it is no good. I say this is so much talk. Music gives the film another dimension, if it's done with the story in mind.

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• ‟ I don't like to surprise anyone with the music I compose for a film. That way, there is less trouble later on.

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