Mancini Quotes

"I just sort of fear that everybody does it now. Everything`s hip, every commercial`s hip. It almost makes you want to do a Mancini-type score, because nobody`s doing it. It would set itself apart more than a pop score now. So the goal was, in this movie, to try some different things." (on the score for Elizabethtown)

(On composing for `The Bears and I`) Heck, I`m no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs. I know I`m incapable of orchestrating an entire film. They just asked me to write something expressing the story about a guy who`s back from Vietnam and sorta lost, who goes to an Indian village in the Northwest.

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.