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For better or for worse, in '...

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.

Gian Carlo Menotti 19 quotes

I guess I am running the risk...

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

Gian Carlo Menotti 19 quotes

A man only becomes wise when ...

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

Gian Carlo Menotti 19 quotes

Art is the unceasing effort t...

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

Gian Carlo Menotti 19 quotes

The Italians are very unmusic...

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 19 quotes

The creation of Spoleto was a...

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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I know of no better definitio...

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 19 quotes

Love, which, in concert with ...

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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Love is born of faith, lives ...

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

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It's always what you did befo...

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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Hell begins on the day when G...

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 19 quotes

I rebelled against the idea o...

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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It was my contention that ope...

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.

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The only thing that interests...

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.

Gian Carlo Menotti 19 quotes

At the premieres, I always wa...

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 19 quotes

I really don't think I have t...

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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As a little boy of 3 or 4, I ...

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.

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I have the feeling that every...

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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I loathe my body. The liver s...

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

Gian Carlo Menotti 19 quotes

Any subject is good for opera...

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

Gian Carlo Menotti 19 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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