Carlisle Floyd Quotes

Carlisle Floyd — American Composer born on June 11, 1926,

Carlisle Floyd is an American opera composer. The son of a Methodist minister, he has based many of his works on themes from the South. His best known opera, Susannah, is based on a story from the Biblical Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect... (wikipedia)

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

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

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

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.

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 Quotes

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