Gian Carlo Menotti Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'