Gian Carlo Menotti Love Quotations

It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.

Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers-roses and lilies-which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

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