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" My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.' "
Gian Carlo Menotti
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" Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. "
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" 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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" I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music. "
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" 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 always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God. "
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" 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. "
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" People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am. "
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" I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex. "
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" A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. "
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" There are three reasons why I live in Scotland. First, I like silence, and you have to be a millionaire to buy silence in Italy. Second, I like cold weather. Third, in Italy I have too many relatives and know too many people, so I never get a quiet time. "
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" Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. "
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" Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. "
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" One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.' "
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" At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed. "
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" I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh. "
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" 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 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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" God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that. "
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" Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed. "
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" It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love. "
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" 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. "
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