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

~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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: June 11th, 1926

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