52 Quotes by Carlisle Floyd

I was choosing a subject matter that tries to depict the period more accurately, rather than the history-book version we have come to believe.

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.

I tried to use the voice so it was not strictly recitative or singing or spoken word. I tried a great deal of speaking on pitch and in rhythm.

It's very easy to distance yourself from period pieces because either through costuming or whatever, they don't seem to be as much of our time.

I had all the normal interests-I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

If you are surrounded by colleagues you trust, and if you can use their comments and responses creatively, I think it's tremendous.

I don't know how any of my operas will play in 20 years. It will have a lot to do with the fashions of the time and what people respond to.

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

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!