Henry Mancini Quotes

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.

'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.

I never thought that I would have the No 1 song in the world.

We didn't expect 'Boom Boom Pow' to come out the box and be so successful.

The success of 'Take Me To Church,' I never imagined it. I never imagined that it would work on radio, that it would find its way onto the charts, even at home and certainly not in America.

I recorded my first song, 'Greetings,' and it got so much attention on SoundCloud. I was not expecting that.

I have sung some great songs, and fortunately, all have gone to become hits.

We certainly weren't expecting to become pop stars.

In hindsight, I think my manager and I both knew that 'Someone You Loved' was a special song that we had to put out. But no one was expecting it to do so well.

'Rolling Stone,' my first single, was only a hit in Portugal, but when we recorded my second single, 'Can The Can,' I got that hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck feeling, and I knew it would be huge. It topped the charts in the U.K. and Australia in 1973, and I got my first gold disc.

I didn't think anyone was going to buy 'Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?' It was really personal, not a hit record, I thought. I wanted us to sound completely different. Shows how much I knew.

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown.

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.

When I'm making songs, I never call them hits. I knew 'Bandz A Make Her Dance' was a good record, but I never knew it was gonna be a hit.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.

Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.

I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.