Michel Legrand Quotes

#1. Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

John Denver

#2. You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

Mitt Romney

#3. Fathom the destiny that, does not just lay before you - but, awaits you.

Eleesha

#4. 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

#5. If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association.

Mitch Hedberg

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

Michel Legrand

#7. Life depends on, how much you're alive

Simone Damgaard

#8. Every great achiever knows the power of motivation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Michel Legrand

#10. 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

#11. Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that's me.

Mr. T

#12. The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Bertrand Russell

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

Michel Legrand

#14. Not yet," he said. "You're beautiful, and it's killing me and I want to die a moment longer. Please.

Nenia Campbell

#15. 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

#16. Do your best. Live. Create. Fail.

N.D. Wilson

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

Michel Legrand

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

Michel Legrand

#19. His tip hit her core, both of them yelling. She bucked upward at the touch, her hands clutching his shoulders. "Holy shit!" Luke cried. He breathed hard through his nose. "That as... I'm not sure... I think I might lose it...

Amanda Carlson

#20. 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