Legrand Quotes & Sayings

But how can she change a person like that? said Victoria.
She just can. I'd never have thought before, ever, that I could hate music and want to leave it behind, but now
Lawrence Prewitt, said Victoria. Her voice was shaking, but she stood up and put on such a fierce dazzle that even Donovan seemed to wake up. Don't you dare ever start talking like that again, or when I get out of here, I'll leave you behind with the gofers. Lawrence smiled. I've missed your threats, Vicky. — Claire Legrand

You're powerful, Clara. Or you could be, if you would let go of your fear long enough to realize it. — Claire Legrand

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

Some old ugly woman says she'll teach you magic. — Claire Legrand

All people are self-made. Only the successful people admit it. — Ron LeGrand

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

Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to. — Victoria Legrand

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs. — John Denver

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

I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.' — Victoria Legrand

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

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

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

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

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around! — Victoria Legrand

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

I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on. — Victoria Legrand

Victoria hated messes. She hated distractions. Friends were the worst distraction of all. — Claire Legrand

We all carry secrets' said the fox. 'The more we ignore them, the heavier they become. — Claire Legrand

Being nothing felt quite the same as being something. Maybe she had never been something at all. — Claire Legrand

Have you ever watched people when they don't know you're watching them? Like in a movie theater or a concert. When people get caught up in watching something, their faces change. The lines on their faces get softer, because whatever they're watching has made them forget how they think they're supposed to be looking. Instead, they just ARE - just sitting there, listening and watching and being real. — Claire Legrand

You have to free your brain to roam to places that are a little impractical, and innovation consultants have come up with some great ways to encourage that. One of my favorites comes from Legrand, who tells people in group brainstorming sessions to try to come up with the WORST possible ideas that they can think of ... Once you have a list of really, really bad suggestions - and coming up with them does force your brain to work in a different way - you try to flip them over into the positive. — Amanda Lang

This is our fight, Sly Boots, not yours. You're not a witch." "No, — Claire Legrand

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

It's always a struggle to make things sound more or less brilliant. — Victoria Legrand

It's a strange feeling, when you hear a good piece of music. It starts out kind of shaky, this hot, heavy knot in your chest. At first it's tiny, like a spot of light in a dark room, but then it builds, pouring through you. And the next thing you know, everything from your forehead down to your fingers and toes is on fire. You feel like the hot, heavy knot in your chest is turning into a bubble. It's full of everything good in the world, and if you don't do something
if you don't run or dance or shout to everyone in the world about this music you've just heard
it'll explode. — Claire Legrand

You cannot shy away from yourself. Look the world in the eye, and it can do nothing to hurt you. — Claire Legrand

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

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

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

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

The Lord has never indicated that black skin came because of being less faithful. Now, the Indian; we know why he has changed, don't we? The Book of Mormon tells us that; and he has a dark skin, but he has promise there that through faithfulness, that they all again become a white and delightsome people. — LeGrand Richards

Who are you?" the boy asked. He examined the stranger from head to toe and made a face. "You're ugly." "And — Claire Legrand

is that you read my thoughts using magic, and that's how you found out my real name." "Mind — Claire Legrand

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

They headed back into the maze of gardens. The shrubberies seemed to crawl. Victoria ignored them, pushing past thorns and brambles and suspiciously roachlike leaves, concentrating not on them but on the pinching grip of Lawrence's fingers. Hmm, she thought. I suppose this is actually somewhat useful. She didn't so much mind holding his hand from that moment on. — Claire Legrand

His (Claude Legrand's) method is founded in a simple directive: Don't conclude that the problem as it's first presented, or as you first perceive it, is indeed the actual problem. If you do, and you've got it wrong, the solution you produce may also be wrong. The first step to figuring out what your problem is, Legrand says, is to deconstruct it by questioning it. — Amanda Lang

Even after everything else has gone wrong, pancakes still smell the same. — Claire Legrand

I think sometimes songwriting becomes diluted when you have lots of components to mask a lack of core. — Victoria Legrand

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

The gift of the Holy Ghost is as important to man as sunshine and water are to plants. — LeGrand Richards

Sometimes,' Anastazia said, 'it isn't about being the most powerful person or the person who has the most knowledge. It isn't about being the oldest person, or the strongest person, or the person who makes all the right decisions. Sometimes it's about being the person who decides to stand up and fight. — Claire 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

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

He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him. — Claire Legrand

Sly Boots had betrayed them. They had lost the skeletons. — Claire Legrand

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

Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play. — Victoria Legrand

As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive. — Victoria Legrand

I start to worry that I should be saying something. Most of the time I think I could be perfectly content without saying a single word, but no one else seems to function that way. There is so much talking in the world, and so much expectation to talk, even if you do not feel like talking. I find it overwhelming. — Claire Legrand

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

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

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

For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy. — Victoria Legrand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No, but I'm Quicksilver's friend," Sly Boots replied, "and I won't let her do this alone." Lars — Claire Legrand

But you're supposed to play music, obviously," said Victoria.
Lawrence looked at her in surprise.
"You mean it? I thought you hated it."
"I do mean it," said Victoria. She felt pretty shocked herself. "It's annoying sometimes - well, a lot of the time, really - but it's obviously the thing you're best at, so why shouldn't you do it?" Embarrassed at how happy Lawrence looked, she tried to smooth the wrinkles out of her dirty pajamas. "I mean, it's only logical, isn't it?"
"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.
"Well," she said. "Well. — Claire Legrand

People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it. — Victoria Legrand

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

How can the world look so perfect when I feel so broken? — Claire Legrand

WORTHLESS, USELESS — Claire Legrand

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

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 really do try to let the identity or voice inside come out. — Victoria Legrand

As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense. — Victoria Legrand

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

We just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work. — LeGrand Richards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In general, I think I'm a very private person. But I also love human beings. — Victoria Legrand

Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner. — Victoria Legrand

dried blood on Quicksilver's hands, — Claire Legrand

Pig! Pig! Pig!" the other girls began to chant, turning up their noses too. Girl's skin crawled with anger. That — Claire Legrand

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

I like to hear what other people's interpretations are, because people come up with things I'd never thought about. — Victoria Legrand

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