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"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."
"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
Explore more quotes by Carlisle Floyd
"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."
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them."
"You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed."
"If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it."
"I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable."
"What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds."
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