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Carlisle Floyd

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

– Carlisle Floyd

Carlisle Floyd

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

Carlisle Floyd

We don’t have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It’s very disturbing to me that we’ve sort of been pushed to the corners.

– Carlisle Floyd

Carlisle Floyd

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

Carlisle Floyd

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

Carlisle Floyd

Opera is given so little attention in the national press.

– Carlisle Floyd

Carlisle Floyd

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

Carlisle Floyd

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

Carlisle Floyd

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

Carlisle Floyd

There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.

– Carlisle Floyd

Carlisle Floyd

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

Carlisle Floyd

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

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