Michel Legrand famous quotes

"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"
-- Michel Legrand

#Education #Realizing

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

#Song #Circles #Mind

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

#Music #Spiritual #Play

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

#Strange #Melody

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

#Thinking #Needs #Film

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

#Trying #Radio #Harmony

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

#Mother #Father #Home

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

#Writing #Two #Three

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

#Home #Piano #Want

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.

The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.