Gian Carlo Menotti Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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