Gian Carlo Menotti Quotes & Sayings
36 most famous Gian Carlo Menotti quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American composer who passed away on 1 February, 2007.
“Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.”
“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.”
“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.”
“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”
“Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.”
“My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.”
“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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