Carlisle Floyd Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Carlisle Floyd
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“America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.”
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“Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.”
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“I don't know how any of my operas will play in 20 years. It will have a lot to do with the fashions of the time and what people respond to.”
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“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.”
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“I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.”
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“I had all the normal interests-I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.”
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“I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.”
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“I tried to use the voice so it was not strictly recitative or singing or spoken word. I tried a great deal of speaking on pitch and in rhythm.”
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“I was choosing a subject matter that tries to depict the period more accurately, rather than the history-book version we have come to believe.”
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“I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.”
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