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Carlisle Floyd
 
Date of birth: 1926
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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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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" Having grown up in the South, I felt totally comfortable working with these prototypical characters in Willie Stark. "

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" I believe the opera has a comment to make on our national character and destiny. "

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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 had the honor last year of being inducted into the American Academy of Art and Letters, so I can't claim being an outsider. "

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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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" I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period. "

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" I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice. "

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