Carlisle Floyd

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

— Carlisle Floyd

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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive! ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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

— Carlisle Floyd

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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

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

— Carlisle Floyd

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Opera is given so little attention in the national press. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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

— Carlisle Floyd

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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

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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

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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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