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Music Quotes by Carlisle Floyd
- I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love…
- 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 say…
- I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
- 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…
- There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He…
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