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> [I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-legrand/i-have-a-very-strange-melodic-gift-melodies-come-to-me-effortlessly/)

[Michel Legrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-legrand/)

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## More by Michel Legrand

> [I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-legrand/i-have-a-very-strange-melodic-gift-melodies-come-to-me-effortlessly/)

[Michel Legrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-legrand/)

> [The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-legrand/the-more-i-live-the-more-i-learn-the-more-i-learn-the-more-i-realize/)

[Michel Legrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-legrand/)

> [Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-legrand/here-is-how-i-work-when-i-think-that-a-film-needs-to-have-a-principal/)

[Michel Legrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-legrand/)

> [Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-legrand/here-is-how-i-work-when-i-think-that-a-film-needs-to-have-a-principal-2/)

[Michel Legrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-legrand/my-father-had-left-behind-an-old-piano-my-sister-was-already-going-to/)

[Michel Legrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-legrand/like-a-circle-in-a-spiral-like-a-wheel-within-a-wheel-never-ending-or/)

[Michel Legrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-legrand/)

> [To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-legrand/to-play-piano-is-a-significant-part-of-my-life-my-existence-it/)

[Michel Legrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-legrand/i-insist-on-a-steinway-for-my-recordings-my-concerts-and-my-home-it/)

[Michel Legrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-legrand/)

> [So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-legrand/so-i-write-melodies-thirty-forty-fifty-then-i-cast-them-off-until-i/)

[Michel Legrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-legrand/)

> [I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-legrand/i-would-listen-to-something-on-the-radio-and-try-to-tap-out-the/)

[Michel Legrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-legrand/)

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