--- title: "4 Melody Quotes By Gian Carlo Menotti" description: "4 Melody quotes by Gian Carlo Menotti. Plus more from Gian Carlo Menotti and more Melody sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8b/gian-carlo-menotti-15915_gift_god-gives-you-the-gift-of-melody-or-he-d_343476.png" --- > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8b/gian-carlo-menotti-15915_gift_god-gives-you-the-gift-of-melody-or-he-d_343476.png) > [Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/melody-is-a-form-of-remembrance-it-must-have-a-quality-of/) [Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db6/gian-carlo-menotti-15915_ears_melody-is-a-form-of-remembrance-it-must_1457517.png) > [I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/i-really-don-t-think-i-have-that-much-of-the-gift-i-have-a-little-bit/) [Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16c/gian-carlo-menotti-15915_beethoven_i-really-don-t-think-i-have-that-much-of_2641244.jpg) > [The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/the-italians-are-very-unmusical-if-i-go-to-a-protestant-church-in/) [Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b98/gian-carlo-menotti-15915_amsterdam_the-italians-are-very-unmusical-if-i-go_2678352.png) ## Other authors on Melody - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-zach-condon-97138.jpg) Zach Condon 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melody/zach-condon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b002/author-kumar-sanu-6129.jpg) Kumar Sanu 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melody/kumar-sanu/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-andrew-bird-12885.jpg) Andrew Bird 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melody/andrew-bird/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melody/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cassandra-clare-21529.jpg) Cassandra Clare 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melody/cassandra-clare/) - [Trentemøller 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melody/trentem-ller/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pete-seeger-74651.jpg) Pete Seeger 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melody/pete-seeger/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-miles-davis-68255.jpg) Miles Davis 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melody/miles-davis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-huey-long-42562.jpg) Michel Legrand 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melody/michel-legrand/) - [J.J. McAvoy 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melody/j-j-mcavoy/) - [Enya 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melody/enya/) ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/melody/gian-carlo-menotti/#itemlist", "name": "4 Melody Quotes By Gian Carlo Menotti", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gian Carlo Menotti" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/god-gives-you-the-gift-of-melody-or-he-doesn-t-it-s-as-simple-as-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8b/gian-carlo-menotti-15915_gift_god-gives-you-the-gift-of-melody-or-he-d_343476.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8b/gian-carlo-menotti-15915_gift_god-gives-you-the-gift-of-melody-or-he-d_343476.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8b/gian-carlo-menotti-15915_gift_god-gives-you-the-gift-of-melody-or-he-d_343476.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.” — Gian Carlo Menotti", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Melody is a form of remembrance. 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