Gian Carlo Menotti Quotes

"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
- Gian Carlo Menotti
(Related: Opera)

"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."
- Gian Carlo Menotti
(Related: Art, Beauty, Effort, Flowers)

"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
(Related: God, Vision, Day, Gifts, Hell)

"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears."
- Gian Carlo Menotti
(Related: Quality, Remembrance)

"Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed."
- Gian Carlo Menotti
(Related: Life, Dream, Waiting)