Gian Carlo Menotti Quotes

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

Not an audience but a habit. - Gian Carlo Menotti

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

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

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

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

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