Carlisle Floyd | "The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public."

"The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public."

Carlisle Floyd, American Composer

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"The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public."

"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."

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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

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"I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now."

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"It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow."

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"So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that."

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"If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book."

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"You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!"

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"I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now."

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Personal Development

"I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable."

Music

"Opera is given so little attention in the national press."

Attention

"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."

Colors

"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."

Time

"We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners."

Time

"You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed."

Will

"The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public."

Now

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

Mother

"Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality."

Time

"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."

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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!"

Author Name

Personal Development

"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."

Author Name

Personal Development

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now."

Author Name

Personal Development

"It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow."

Author Name

Personal Development

"So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that."

Author Name

Personal Development

"If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book."

Author Name

Personal Development

"You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!"

Author Name

Personal Development

"I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now."

Author Name

Personal Development

More

"I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable."

Music

"Opera is given so little attention in the national press."

Attention

"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."

Colors

"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."

Time

"We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners."

Time

"You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed."

Will

"The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public."

Now

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

Mother

"Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality."

Time

"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."

Love