Michel Legrand Quotes

#1. So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Michel Legrand

#2. The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

Michel Legrand

#3. To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

Michel Legrand

#4. My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

Michel Legrand

#5. I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

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#6. I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

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#7. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

Michel Legrand

#8. Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

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#9. Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind.

Michel Legrand