Michel Legrand Quotes & Sayings

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

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. — Michel Legrand

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies. — Michel Legrand

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

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. — Michel Legrand

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

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

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

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