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Gian Carlo Menotti Quotes
Page 1 of 1Gian Carlo Menotti
July 7, 1911 - February 1, 2007
Nationality: Italian
Category: Composer
Subcategory: Italian Composer
|  Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. | | A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. | | 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. | | Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. | | Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed. | | Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. |
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