Lalo Schifrin Quotes

My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father’s side and my mother’s side… they were all professional musicians. My father was a concert master, he took me to a lot of rehearsals, concerts, performances, opera, ballet. For me, that was life.
Lalo Schifrin 

I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very… I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it’s the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music… that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That’s what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.
Lalo Schifrin