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"In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there."
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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."
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"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."
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"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."
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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."
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"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
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"In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent."
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"In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire."
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"When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match."
Movies
"Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances."
Being
"The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals."
Music
"With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting."
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"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
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"The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever."
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"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
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