Carlo Menotti Quotes
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Carlo Menotti Quotes & Sayings
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One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'
— Gian Carlo Menotti
I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
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
God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
A lot of people think that I'm a Michael Jackson impersonator.
— Michael Jackson
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization.
— Suzy Kassem
People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
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
I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
Music is ... a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
I can't leave." Green Eyes took a huge breath. "This is the only place where I get to see you.
— Debra Anastasia
Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
Fate has blessed me.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'
— Gian Carlo Menotti
I thought conceptual art was a joke.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
