Gian Carlo Menotti

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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These are some quotes by Italian author Gian Carlo Menotti Composer, who lived between July 7, 1911 and February 1, 2007.

Quotes by Gian Carlo Menotti

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

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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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The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise.

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