“With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer.”

(Henry Mancini, nome d'arte di Enrico Nicola Mancini, compositore, arrangiatore, direttore d'orchestra; Cleveland, 16 aprile 1924 – Beverly Hills, 14 giugno 1994)