Henry Mancini Quotes

I want to accomplish something for myself and set a bar for myself, for somebody to be like, 'Damn, Trippie legendary. He did such and such.'

I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true 'Jurassic Park' fan.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

I think it's a big deal to have a great soundtrack for a movie.

To me, score is really important. I would rather not have any score if it's something that's going to detract from the film. So often when I watch films, the score is what really bothers me.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

My parents are avid supporters of me, and just hearing my name and the word 'Grammy' in the same sentence would be a dream come true. I mean, that's something you put on your tombstone.

It's almost a blessing for a new generation to say somebody like myself went to their school. It helps kids dream, and now they're getting into acting, football, whatever.

I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.

My whole life I saw everybody else get shine, I saw everybody else get money, everybody else wanted to rap. I saw them getting record deals and stuff like that. And everytime I saw that it was damn, I can't wait until my time.

There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.

You want to be a part of the big card. You want to be part of history.

I'd like to be remembered as the greatest ever.

I want to be that guy who comes to mind when you think of Canadian basketball one day.

Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.

As a screen composer or film-music writer, I need something that I can work with in the body of the score. Like 'Charade,' 'Moon River,' 'Wine and Roses,' 'Dear Heart' - they were all just themes that grew out of the picture.

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

Godzilla' took two months because it required a two-hour-plus score. 'Imitation Game' was three weeks.