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"
• To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
• I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.
• Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.
• I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.
• 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…
• So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is…
• 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…

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