Gian Carlo Menotti Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Gian Carlo Menotti:

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

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

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

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

I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.

Gian Carlo Menotti

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

Gian Carlo Menotti

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Gian Carlo Menotti

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

Gian Carlo Menotti

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.

Gian Carlo Menotti

My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'

Gian Carlo Menotti

Fate has blessed me.

Gian Carlo Menotti

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.

Gian Carlo Menotti

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

Gian Carlo Menotti

It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.

Gian Carlo Menotti

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

Gian Carlo Menotti

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.

Gian Carlo Menotti

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

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

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

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

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

Gian Carlo Menotti