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Carlisle Floyd

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

— Carlisle Floyd art

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

— Carlisle Floyd success

I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.

— Carlisle Floyd music

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

— Carlisle Floyd love

I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.

— Carlisle Floyd will

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

— Carlisle Floyd music

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

— Carlisle Floyd men

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

— Carlisle Floyd art

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

— Carlisle Floyd character

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

— Carlisle Floyd time

There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.

— Carlisle Floyd music

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

— Carlisle Floyd art

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

— Carlisle Floyd character

The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.

— Carlisle Floyd work

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

— Carlisle Floyd age

When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.

— Carlisle Floyd men

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

— Carlisle Floyd music

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

— Carlisle Floyd art

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

— Carlisle Floyd art

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

— Carlisle Floyd music

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

— Carlisle Floyd courage

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

— Carlisle Floyd

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

— Carlisle Floyd art

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

— Carlisle Floyd lust

Opera is given so little attention in the national press.

— Carlisle Floyd attention

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