Italian - Composer | July 7, 1911 - February 1, 2007
One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'
Gian Carlo Menotti
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Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
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God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.
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I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert or Chopin or Beethoven, though Beethoven had a very difficult time writing melody, too.
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It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.
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I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.
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A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.
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I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.
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I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive.
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As a little boy of 3 or 4, I became lame. Something was wrong with my right leg. There are pictures of me being pulled around in a little wagon. The doctors didn't know what to do. So my nanny took me to the miraculous Madonna at Sacro Monte in Varese, the priest blessed me, and I walked.
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At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.
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Fate has blessed me.
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