Quotes about Carlisle Floyd

I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I...

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

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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable...

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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write...

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When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American...

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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was...

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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved...

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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through...

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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I...

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There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is...

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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a...

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The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all...

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