Felt Quote by Carlisle Floyd Download Open image “If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.” — Carlisle Floyd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Felt Opera
I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
People who know me as a hard-core rocker who positively despises musicals might be surprised to find that I am a huge fan of… — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me. — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it. — Karen Black Copy Share Image
I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera. — James Gray Copy Share Image
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
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… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share
The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt. — Gail Porter Copy Share Image
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and I just had such a strong reaction to the prayer. And I was really emotionally - I felt really grounded at that time. And so to be in this prayer and the imam is doing the… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share
When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about… — Chad Hugo Copy Share Image
Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
