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.
From Gian Carlo Menotti
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
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.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.
I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.
One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'
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