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One Quotes by Carlisle Floyd
- 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…
- 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 to…
- Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at…
- The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly…
- 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…
- If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
- 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…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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