1.
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
As the visions unfurl
Like the hoops that you discern
In the wind turbines of your brain.
2.
"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"
Michel Legrand
3.
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
4.
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
5.
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
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.
I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.
Michel Legrand
8.
To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
Michel Legrand
9.
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. 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. That happened one time with Jacques Demy for the duo of the twins [in Les demoiselles de Rochefort]: I went to his house in Noirmoutier to play 35 possible themes for him.
Michel Legrand
10.
I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.
Michel Legrand
