Carlisle Floyd

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

— Carlisle Floyd

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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. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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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. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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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. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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

— Carlisle Floyd

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

— Carlisle Floyd

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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. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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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

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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

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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. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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