Gian Carlo Menotti Quotes

Italian - Composer | July 7, 1911 - February 1, 2007

There are three reasons why I live in Scotland. First, I like silence, and you have to be a millionaire to buy silence in Italy. Second, I like cold weather. Third, in Italy I have too many relatives and know too many people, so I never get a quiet time.

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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

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I thought conceptual art was a joke.

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For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.

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Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

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I rebelled against the idea of the artist being what I call the 'after-dinner mint' of society. I didn't want them to be just the entertainers, but rather part of the community - the bread, not only the dessert.

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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

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A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

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Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

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Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

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People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

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I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.

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