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Gian Carlo Menotti

A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.

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Gian Carlo Menotti

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

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Gian Carlo Menotti

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

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Gian Carlo Menotti

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

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Gian Carlo Menotti

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

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Gian Carlo Menotti

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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Gian Carlo Menotti

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.