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• Carlisle Floyd:

  I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was ac

• Carlisle Floyd:

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

• Carlisle Floyd:

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

• Carlisle Floyd:

  I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the

• Carlisle Floyd:

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

• Carlisle Floyd:

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

• Carlisle Floyd:

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

• Carlisle Floyd:

  Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has sur

• Carlisle Floyd:

  I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the sc

• Carlisle Floyd:

  I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also deve