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Carlisle Floyd Quotes

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

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

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience. - Carlisle Floyd

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