Top 78 Legrand Quotes
#1. Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.
Edgar Allan Poe
#2. Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.
John Denver
#3. I am going to die, her brain recited calmly. I am going to be stabbed until I am died. How infuriating. I have so much left to do.
Claire Legrand
#4. is that you read my thoughts using magic, and that's how you found out my real name." "Mind
Claire Legrand
#6. It's always a struggle to make things sound more or less brilliant.
Victoria Legrand
#7. That's what life is, you know: a bunch of baby steps, one after another after another, and sometimes you fall, but you always get back up, and eventually you get where you're going.
Claire Legrand
#8. Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
Victoria Legrand
#9. I don't think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don't want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.
Victoria Legrand
#10. Victoria hated messes. She hated distractions. Friends were the worst distraction of all.
Claire Legrand
#11. If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things.
Victoria Legrand
#12. I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken.
Claire Legrand
#13. My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.
Victoria Legrand
#14. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.
Michel Legrand
#16. As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.
Victoria Legrand
#17. It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
Victoria Legrand
#18. How can the world look so perfect when I feel so broken?
Claire Legrand
#19. We just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work.
LeGrand Richards
#20. 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.
Michel Legrand
#21. I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
Victoria Legrand
#22. Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.
Michel Legrand
#23. Even after everything else has gone wrong, pancakes still smell the same.
Claire Legrand
#24. He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him.
Claire Legrand
#26. She had forgotten how to care about the city that had taken so much from her. Forgetting was the only way she had found to keep moving every day.
Claire Legrand
#27. 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
#28. I feel like we are playing the Quiet Game. When you're tired of playing and want to shout out all the words you've been keeping inside you, but you absolutely cannot lose. So instead you sit, and bite down on everything screaming inside you, and wait.
Claire Legrand
#29. Pig! Pig! Pig!" the other girls began to chant, turning up their noses too. Girl's skin crawled with anger. That
Claire Legrand
#30. Sly Boots had betrayed them. They had lost the skeletons.
Claire Legrand
#31. Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.
Victoria Legrand
#32. His eyes shone with an anguish Clara understood well. Loss, horrible loss. Pain and anger, and the world being pulled out from beneath one's feet.
Claire Legrand
#33. All people are self-made. Only the successful people admit it.
Ron LeGrand
#34. I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.
Victoria Legrand
#35. This marking, said Victoria, running her finger over a knot in the bark. What does it look like to you?
It looks like a heart, said Lawrence. He put his fingers on the knot too. They brushed Victoria's, and he drew back. I mean, not that I think about things like that, or
well, you know.
Claire Legrand
#36. For every worry under the sun, there is a remedy or there is none. If there be one, hurry and find it. If there be none, then never mind it.
LeGrand Richards
#37. There is a statement often repeated in the Church, and while it is not in one of the Standard Church Works, it is accepted as church doctrine, and this is: 'As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become.'
LeGrand Richards
#38. I'm a Gemini, so I'm very dual. I love something and I hate it at the same time, so that probably comes out in the lyrics.
Victoria Legrand
#39. I think sometimes songwriting becomes diluted when you have lots of components to mask a lack of core.
Victoria Legrand
#40. As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.
Victoria Legrand
#41. 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
#42. Who are you?" the boy asked. He examined the stranger from head to toe and made a face. "You're ugly." "And
Claire Legrand
#43. The guys in high school were like, "You've got a nice voice; you should keep singing," but I never honestly thought that one day I'd be a singer. When you're young, you don't see the signs.
Victoria Legrand
#44. This is our fight, Sly Boots, not yours. You're not a witch." "No,
Claire Legrand
#45. People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
Victoria Legrand
#46. I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.
Victoria Legrand
#47. I really do try to let the identity or voice inside come out.
Victoria Legrand
#48. You're powerful, Clara. Or you could be, if you would let go of your fear long enough to realize it.
Claire Legrand
#49. No, but I'm Quicksilver's friend," Sly Boots replied, "and I won't let her do this alone." Lars
Claire Legrand
#50. But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
Victoria Legrand
#51. The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.
Michel Legrand
#52. If you weren't, well, you
I'd want to kiss you right now. It was fortunate that the room was so dark. Victoria's cheeks turned bright red.
Claire Legrand
#53. I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.
Victoria Legrand
#54. Victoria pushed it open the rest of the way and stepped inside. She left it open in case she needed to make a quick exit. The fact that she had to think about things like quick exits infuriated her.
Claire Legrand
#55. We all carry secrets' said the fox. 'The more we ignore them, the heavier they become.
Claire Legrand
#56. Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
Victoria Legrand
#57. You cannot shy away from yourself. Look the world in the eye, and it can do nothing to hurt you.
Claire Legrand
#58. So many stories yet to be told, so many secrets to be unearthed. It would happen soon; Clara would make sure of it, and if Nicholas tried to evade her, well, she still had her daggers.
Claire Legrand
#59. But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.
Claire Legrand
#60. If I am a puzzle, this is the moment in which I find the first corner piece. There is still a lot of work to do; I still have a thousand pieces of myself to fit into place. But everyone knows you're supposed to find the corners first. They are the beginning.
Claire Legrand
#61. Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.
Victoria Legrand
#62. I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.
Michel Legrand
#63. Being nothing felt quite the same as being something. Maybe she had never been something at all.
Claire Legrand
#64. 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
#65. The gift of the Holy Ghost is as important to man as sunshine and water are to plants.
LeGrand Richards
#66. In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings.
Victoria Legrand
#67. I like to hear what other people's interpretations are, because people come up with things I'd never thought about.
Victoria Legrand
#68. I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in Wayne, Pennsylvania. I wasn't allowed to play any instruments; I could only be the singer because I was a girl.
Victoria Legrand
#69. You were looking for me?
Victoria wondered if she would be red for the rest of her life. Yes.
Isn't that something. Perfect ice queen Victoria looking for skunkish old me.
Claire Legrand
#70. I want to ask him about these things, but whenever I imagine doing so, I freeze up. I have always been better at writing things than saying them.
Claire Legrand
#71. We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.
Victoria Legrand
#72. There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.
Victoria Legrand
#73. With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.
Victoria Legrand
#74. To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
Michel Legrand
#75. I'm not like her. I don't steal people."
Mr. Tibbalt watched her, saying nothing.
The silence made Victoria bristle. "Well, I don't.
Claire Legrand
#76. I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!
Victoria Legrand
#77. Completely alone, no note, no anything. Hours pass by. Day turns to night. And then, finally, you show up - with blood all over you?"Anastazia
Claire Legrand
#78. If you will not choose a name," Mother Petra told five-year-old Girl from behind her enormous desk, "and if you will not answer to any we choose for you, then you will have no name at all." And
Claire Legrand
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