Quotes by Gian Carlo Menotti - Page 1

Fate has blessed me.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Blessed
Fate
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I thought conceptual art was a joke.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Conceptual Art
Conceptual
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I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.
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Liver
Loathe
Spots
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Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.
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Love
Born
Charity
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People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
I Am Me People
Certain Way
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I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.
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Sympathetic
Tendency
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I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.
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Guilt
Harder
Complex
Suffer
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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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Melody
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My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'
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Love You
Composers
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I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.
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Score
Chair
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I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.
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Demonstration
God Art Music
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I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.
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Opera
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Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
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Melodies
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Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
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Heart
Long
Return
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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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Tired
Bobby
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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Quality
Ears
Form
Inevitability
Melody
Remembrance
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Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Composer
Feels
Opera
Sing
Subject
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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Art
Beauty
Smile
Effort
Flower
Sunshine
Never
Flowers
Compete
Succeeding
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A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Wisdom
Wise
Men
Depth
Ignorance
Approximate
Becomes
Begins
Calculate
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Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Dream
Destroyed
Waiting
Whole
Hoping
Realized
Soon
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One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Christmas
Impression
Carol
Compete
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I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Memories
Life Music Heart
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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.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Bathroom
Failed
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I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Inspiring
Love
Space
Heart
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Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Opera
Sudden
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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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Divinity
Opening
Schubert
Wagner
Chord
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The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed.
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Catholic
Creation
Guilt
Suffered
Experiment
Fifties
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It's always what you did before. The year before is always so much better. Even when the critics hated what you did then, it always looks better five years later.
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Critics
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The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as deep as you can. This is what I've done.
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Dig
Greeks
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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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Waiting
Rediscover
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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.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
God
Accountability
Clear
Clear Vision
Done
Grants
Hell
Might
Vision
Achieved
Did
Begins
Day
Gifts
Wasted
Which
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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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Melody
Schubert
Beethoven
Chopin
Difficult Time
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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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Bread
Dessert
Entertainers
Mint
Rebelled
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It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Contention
Opera
Singers
Rehearsals
Wider
Wider Audience
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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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Modest
Nobility
Sweetness
Dared
Rediscover
Savage
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The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise.
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Amsterdam
Choir
Harmony
Melody
Italians
Italy
Protestant
We Cannot
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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.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Cold
Cold Weather
Millionaire
Quiet
Quiet Time
Scotland
Silence
Weather
Italy
Relatives
Too Many People
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The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed.
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Human Spirit
Unconscious
Beethoven
Collective
Mozart
Noblest
Note
The Only Thing
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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.
Gian Carlo Menotti / Composer
Blessed
Lame
Miraculous
Me Know Right
Leg
Madonna
Monte
Nanny
Priest
Pulled
Wagon
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Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers-roses and lilies-which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.
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Inspiring
Love
Flower
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