Casts Quote by 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…

— Michel Legrand

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

— Kygo

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

— Willie Nelson

As far as melodies go, I could probably write 100 songs in a day - with no words of course - just because I…

— Guy Sebastian

There was a time when I composed for 30 films in a year. In such a short-spanned career, I have done 100 films and…

— Himesh Reshammiya

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.

— Mike Stoller

I only know how to write musicals.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

From the 100 films I have done, I can easily write off about 60.

— Deepti Naval

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and…

— David Bryan

Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.

— Ben Hecht

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

— A. R. Rahman