- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Chord
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fate has blessed me.
- Bread
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rebelled against the idea of the artist being what I call the 'after-dinner mint' of society. I didn't want them to be just the entertainers, but rather part of the community - the bread, not only the dessert.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as deep as you can. This is what I've done.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 always looks better five years later.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise.
- Silence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 felt a need of being needed.
- Conceptual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought conceptual art was a joke.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
- Flesh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.
- Impression
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- Nov 07, 2020
One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020