Michel Legrand quotes
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“"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"”
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“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 LegrandSource : Song: The Windmills of Your Mind
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“To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.”
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“I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.”
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“Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.”
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“I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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
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Source : The Guardian, September 30, 1989.
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“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”
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“I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.”
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“The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.”
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Source : Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1973). “Agnes Martin: exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”
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