Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
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If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.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.
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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 you what that phenomenon is.
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I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
Carlisle Floyd
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
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If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
Carlisle Floyd
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