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There are three reasons why I live in Scotland. First, I like silence, and you have to be a millionaire to buy silence in Italy. Second, I like cold weather. Third, in Italy I have too many relatives and know too many people, so I never get a quiet time.

~Gian Carlo Menotti

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

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

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

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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.

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I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.

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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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My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'

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

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Composer

Born: July 7th, 1911

Died: February 1st, 2007

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