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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. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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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. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.' - Gian Carlo Menotti
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People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed. - 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. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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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. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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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. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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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. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. - Gian Carlo Menotti
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