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Carlisle Floyd

"America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist."

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"America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist."

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"Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated."

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"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."

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"I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent."

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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."

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"You can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?..."

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"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"

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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"

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"Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it."

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"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."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last."
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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."
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"Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them."
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"You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed."
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"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."
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"I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable."
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"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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