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> [I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/i-should-have-worked-harder-in-my-life-i-suffer-from-a-guilt-complex/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

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## More by Gian Carlo Menotti

> [It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/it-takes-a-bobby-white-to-make-a-tired-90-year-old-composer-write-a/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

> [It's always what you did before. The year before is always so much better. Even when the critics hated what you did then, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/it-s-always-what-you-did-before-the-year-before-is-always-so-much/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

> [God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/god-gives-you-the-gift-of-melody-or-he-doesn-t-it-s-as-simple-as-that/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

> [A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/a-man-only-becomes-wise-when-he-begins-to-calculate-the-approximate/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

> [It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/it-was-my-contention-that-opera-can-not-only-pay-for-itself-if-it-is/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

> [People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/people-ask-me-whether-i-m-religious-well-in-a-certain-way-i-am/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

> [At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/at-the-premieres-i-always-watch-the-audience-if-a-child-asks-to-go-to/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

> [I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/i-loathe-my-body-the-liver-spots-the-sagging-flesh/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/a-schubert-song-the-a-major-chord-at-the-opening-of-wagner-s/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

> [I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/i-have-a-heart-problem-so-i-have-to-simplify-my-life-and-be-content/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

> [Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/love-which-in-concert-with-abstinence-established-faith-and-which/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

> [I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/i-know-of-no-better-definition-of-love-than-the-one-given-by-proust/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

> [The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/the-creation-of-spoleto-was-a-social-experiment-because-i-ve-always/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/for-better-or-for-worse-in-the-last-savage-i-have-dared-to-do-away/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

> [Fate has blessed me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/fate-has-blessed-me/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

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