Lalo Schifrin

Miles Davis and John Coltrane were so cool, if alive today global warming wouldn’t be an issue.

I fell in love with Jazz when I was 12 listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of Jazz in New York on the radio.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I’ve heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn’t swinging.

Darlin… be-bop is the music of the future.

It’s difficult for me to dislike an artist, no matter what he’s creating.

It’s easy to play any musical instrument, just touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it’s not etched in your system.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.