"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must……" — 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
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25 Quotes by Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti has 25 quotes on this site.
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Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.
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I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time…
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Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
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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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Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
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Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns…
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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
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Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of…
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A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
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I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.
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Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
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It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.
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More Ears Quotes
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
— Victoria Abril
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I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.
— Dave Attell
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
— Saint Augustine
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the…
— Albert Bandura
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise…
— Dave Barry
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
— Mario Batali
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves…
— Thomas Beecham
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I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
— Adele
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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all…
— Robert Benchley
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