Top 36 Quotes by Gian Carlo Menotti

About Gian Carlo Menotti

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

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.

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.

Gian Carlo Menotti

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

Gian Carlo Menotti

I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.

I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.

Gian Carlo Menotti

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

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

Gian Carlo Menotti

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

Gian Carlo Menotti

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.

Gian Carlo Menotti

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

Gian Carlo Menotti

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.

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

The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as deep as you can. This is what I've done.

The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as deep as you can. This is what I've done.

Gian Carlo Menotti

God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.

God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.

Gian Carlo Menotti

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