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Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'

One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.

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

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.

It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.

A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.

God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

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

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.

I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: Music is ... a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

Music is ... a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.

I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.

At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

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

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

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

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.

I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.

Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

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

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

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

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

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

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: Fate has blessed me.

Fate has blessed me.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.

Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'

My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes: I thought conceptual art was a joke.

I thought conceptual art was a joke.