Author of quotes: Michel Legrand

Now I can admit that when I was young, I did not feel youth had to live it. And now I like never before understand that there are actually young. And even more now I know how to live it and feel it to the very end, until my last breath.

Nobody Piaf.

With her fame she can do anything. It gathers the biggest concert halls in the world. But the more famous the performer, the more he risks, and the more afraid to take risks.

We have an incredible love story that began 50 years ago. In 1964, I flew to Brazil for a film festival and met in our French delegation of the young girl Masha Meril. We had a huge mutual sympathy - what's more, we passionately loved each other but couldn't be together because were both married. I had a wife and kids, and I couldn't quit, and her fiancé in Italy, obligations and promises. In short, we have not been able to be with each other as man and woman, and when saying goodbye, promised each other that inside us love will remain forever. And now, after 50 years we met again in Paris: she played in a production at the theatre, and I came on this show. At that time I was already divorced. I was looking at Mary on the stage, and saw all the lovely young girl he met half a century ago. I had not doubted that I love her. Thank God, she answered me back, and we very soon were married.

Events in my personal biography, too little influence my music. Rather, the process is the reverse. The most ridiculous and funny essays I wrote in the most tragic moments of his life. And Vice versa: for example, "the umbrellas of Cherbourg" is the work in which they cry a lot. But I wrote it in moments of infinite happiness. So the environment has no influence on my creativity.

I can't say as there is melody. I will say one thing: I work endlessly, the process is not interrupted neither by day nor by night. I like the plant, which works three shifts and produces uninterrupted music. What would be an example? Well, imagine a record for the long jump, who is training to be in good shape. Tell him: “Jump on the sixty-meter” and he will immediately jump. Or another example: the well. The well is filled with water to the brim: the water is always at hand, just go and scoop up as needed. I like the well, the more I get, the more music is coming. I am always ready to create something, to write. And so my well is always full of water. But if I stop, if I don't work all the time, then create a new will become harder and harder. The water in the well begins to decrease, would splash somewhere at the bottom, and to get it will not be easy. Of course there is such a mysterious concept as inspiration. But, as Picasso said, there are two types of artists: those who seek and those who find. I'm one of those who finds. I'm always at work, and therefore at any time it is ready for the arrival of inspiration.