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Gian Carlo Menotti Quotes:

Gian Carlo Menotti quotes

Ocupation: Composer

Life: July 7, 1911 - February 1, 2007

Birthday: July 7

Death: February 1

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

Topics: Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

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

Topics: Beauty, Art, Flower

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

Topics: Dream, Waiting, Waiting And Hoping

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

Topics: Heart, Long, Gone

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.

Topics: Accountability, Vision, Done, Clear Vision

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

Topics: Remembrance, Quality, Ears, Inevitability

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Topics: Love, Heart, Space, Definition Of Love

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

Topics: Love, Love Is, Charity

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

Topics: Opera, Composer, Feels

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.

Topics: Love, Inspiring, Flower, Same Love, Solomon

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