Carlisle Floyd quote: "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."

When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear...
CARLISLE FLOYD

There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't kno...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate th...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also devel...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
CARLISLE FLOYD

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
CARLISLE FLOYD

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
CARLISLE FLOYD

I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
CARLISLE FLOYD

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was aca...
CARLISLE FLOYD

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable positio...
CARLISLE FLOYD

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the y...
CARLISLE FLOYD

There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomf...
CARLISLE FLOYD

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value it...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it conta...
CARLISLE FLOYD

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say ...
CARLISLE FLOYD

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
CARLISLE FLOYD

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out...
CARLISLE FLOYD

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but p...
CARLISLE FLOYD

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very brig...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the sce...
CARLISLE FLOYD

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has surv...
CARLISLE FLOYD

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unle...
CARLISLE FLOYD

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of nat...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I was choosing a subject matter that tries to depict the period more accurately, rather than the his...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I had all the normal interests-I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also develop...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I don't know how any of my operas will play in 20 years. It will have a lot to do with the fashions ...
CARLISLE FLOYD

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vi...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
CARLISLE FLOYD

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines w...
CARLISLE FLOYD

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, yo...
CARLISLE FLOYD

The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put t...
CARLISLE FLOYD

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.
BELINDA CARLISLE

This was without question the best tournament I have ever been to. It was tremendously well-run, and...
BUDDY CARLISLE

I know his left foot didn't leave the floor.
BUDDY CARLISLE

We were able to force a lot of turnovers, especially in the second and third quarters. We had some e...
BUDDY CARLISLE

This is quite an array of teams as far as location is concerned. It will be an excellent team experi...
BUDDY CARLISLE

I think Texas is a really good basketball state. We're ranked about 15th in our area. That tells you...
BUDDY CARLISLE

Lance is a competitor and he can shoot, that's a pretty good combination. Lance is just one of those...
BUDDY CARLISLE

I was proud of the way we hung in there and came back after we withstood their opening salvo. We kin...
BUDDY CARLISLE

It's helps to have smart kids. That does carry over to basketball.
BUDDY CARLISLE

We had a tremendous third quarter. In fact, we put together an 18-point run after falling behind 34-...
BUDDY CARLISLE

We made a great comeback to get within one at the half. We felt good going into the third and got of...
BUDDY CARLISLE

The last time you interviewed me, I sat in that chair and we lost.
BILLY CARLISLE

We didn't make many mistakes defensively the first half. It paid off having that big cushion. We got...
BILLY CARLISLE

We contributed by giving them open shots.
BILLY CARLISLE

First time over there we didn't get any (offensive rebounds). We got like two offensive rebounds the...
BILLY CARLISLE

Seeing Forest Brook play, we realized we needed to beat their press. We handled their press well and...
BILLY CARLISLE

I felt like we did have some missed opportunities. That's always scary in a big game. But it's also ...
BILLY CARLISLE

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
KITTY CARLISLE

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.
BELINDA CARLISLE

There's a feeling that our players are misinterpreted and a little misunderstood because of various ...
RICK CARLISLE

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.
BELINDA CARLISLE

I think that a great part of healing was I didn't sit and despair about 'woe is me. Why me? Why me?'...
CHRIS CARLISLE

We're really rolling up our sleeves and getting into it. We have two houses to support now.
ALISON CARLISLE

Last year we raised over $100,000.
ALISON CARLISLE

Family is the foundation that we all draw our strength from, and I am honored to be a part of helpin...
ALISON CARLISLE

Down the stretch, the free-throw line was our nemesis. If we can get a couple of stops and make our ...
RICK CARLISLE

Before the game when (Foster) was warming up, before we went out for real warm-ups, he moved a certa...
RICK CARLISLE

Anthony Johnson is a guy you can count on.
RICK CARLISLE

It seemed like we were throwing it to the guys in orange the entire first half. We were (lazy) with ...
RICK CARLISLE

We always knew he was a good all-around player. From afar, we always felt he would be a better indiv...
RICK CARLISLE

[In late August, Rick Carlisle was in an Atlanta studio auditioning for TNT by doing a mock game tel...
RICK CARLISLE

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
BELINDA CARLISLE

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.
BELINDA CARLISLE

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.
BELINDA CARLISLE

It's been tough. We're still in the midst of the playoff picture and we'll have to win our way in. W...
RICK CARLISLE

We wanted to make sure all questions federal highway had were answered and also (that) we could answ...
JON CARLISLE

It happened awhile ago in a game at Detroit. He jammed it a little bit, but nothing serious, just a ...
RICK CARLISLE

Ronald Ching could be could be very engaging, could be very charming, could be entertaining, but the...
PETER CARLISLE

It's a very effective tool in basically looking at issues such as pavement temperature, salinity of ...
JON CARLISLE

Country music pretty much caters to the American family.
DAVE CARLISLE

The description of the air and sand going in his mouth when he inhaled while he was under the ground...
PETER CARLISLE

Cowboy Crush is like the new Dixie Chicks. Their songs are off the charts right now ... Cowboy Crush...
DAVE CARLISLE

The best way to get your message out is word of mouth. The most important thing is to have someone [...
CHRIS CARLISLE

The best way to get your message out is word of mouth. The most important thing is to have (viewers)...
CHRIS CARLISLE

With the development along that area, this projected was deemed to be a priority. Absent to that, Ro...
JOHN CARLISLE

He has an affinity for the 'everyman' type of player, ... He's been here the last two summers workin...
RICK CARLISLE

If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out ...
RUTH CARLISLE

They are not the same team without Vince Carter.
RICK CARLISLE

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
KITTY CARLISLE

It's baseball. You can't expect the umpires to get them all right. But I don't blame them. If I coac...
DANNY CARLISLE

It got hairy at the end, but it's going to be hairy at times. You've just got to be able to find a w...
RICK CARLISLE

He has a great sense for the game, he has a great sense for when the opponent is off-balanced. His v...
RICK CARLISLE

I look at Chatham and Moncton, I'm a little wary of them too. They beat us 11-9 down there and they ...
CHRIS CARLISLE

We're confident, but also a little wary,
CHRIS CARLISLE

We set it up a little differently. AJ (Johnson) had been going good and we figured that they react t...
RICK CARLISLE

It's not believed to be serious, but we're not sure yet. It was bad enough to where there was swelli...
RICK CARLISLE

Sounds like I’m the man of your dreams…
LISA CARLISLE

It's a deceptive final score. It was obviously a very difficult game. It's not easy against a team l...
RICK CARLISLE

In the second half, his disposition was different at both ends. He made great decisions, he played u...
RICK CARLISLE

Thanks to the corporate cowardice of Bank of America and other companies, the morally illegitimate r...
JOHN CARLISLE

That was my idea, I didn't want that joker to get hit in the face. He had a lot of plastic surgery.
DANNY CARLISLE

It's been tough for Fred this year because of the thumb; he's been in and out of it. He played great...
RICK CARLISLE

A.J.'s the starter for now. We'll see how the next couple of weeks unfold. We were in this same situ...
RICK CARLISLE

Our undoing was the first quarter. We allowed them to shoot 77 percent and that got them going. That...
RICK CARLISLE

He could be very cordial and charming when he was cooperating with you, and there were other times h...
PETER CARLISLE

They had a past together. Did it rule out a future?
LISA CARLISLE

I don't consider myself a cancer survivor because I never became a victim.
CHRIS CARLISLE

Our catcher, Wade Spurlock, had a good night at the plate. Austin Sharp and Jonathan Wray stepped up...
DANNY CARLISLE

We stepped up, swung the bat extremely well, hit the ball and put pressure on people. (Webb) got in ...
DANNY CARLISLE

In his prime he was a very imposing figure with a very large tattoo of a shark on his forearm that h...
PETER CARLISLE

I'm just hoping that when he wakes up he isn't feeling too bad because he's the cornerstone of our t...
RICK CARLISLE

The guy's at the top of his game. It's a rare opportunity to see a guy perform at this level.
RICK CARLISLE

We hung in, competed, and had chances. We created a lot of good looks for ourselves, but weren't abl...
RICK CARLISLE

We're going up against a guy who's playing a superhuman brand of basketball. He's looked invincible.
RICK CARLISLE

We had one of the best practices we've had in the 21/2 years I've been here. Guys really seemed comm...
RICK CARLISLE

Michael Redd was a guy we talked a lot of about before the game. (Jackson) did a good job at the sta...
RICK CARLISLE

There's no doubt right now that (Jackson) is our main guy. He's going to make some things happen for...
RICK CARLISLE

You've got to have character to bounce back from a disappointing night like last night. You've got t...
RICK CARLISLE

Our foul trouble made it tough. (Bryant) gets you into foul trouble, and double-teams get other peop...
RICK CARLISLE

He's a guy who can score the ball, yet I don't see him referred to a lot as a big scorer. He's a win...
RICK CARLISLE

He has an affinity for the 'everyman' type of player. He's been here the last two summers working ou...
RICK CARLISLE

It's just shocking. We were supposed to have a big family dinner. Instead we're just trying to cope.
BUDDY CARLISLE

He's two-for-two now. I think his leadership and being able to get off to an early start like that h...
CHRIS CARLISLE

It's one of the most phenomenal things I've ever seen, and I coached basketball 26 years at Otterbei...
CHRIS CARLISLE

Anytime you win when you're not playing your best, it's the mark of a good team.
CHRIS CARLISLE

Early in the season, I went and printed off the state field from last year and told the guys we'd be...
CHRIS CARLISLE

I told them, 'You know what? I'm wrong. I've thought all year we were good enough to go to state. I ...
CHRIS CARLISLE

We run that (offense) sometimes, but we're going to be doing it more, obviously, when he and ( Steph...
RICK CARLISLE

The state's Transportation Improvement Plan had an amendment to it. What it means is, the intersecti...
JOHN CARLISLE

The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
—ALEXANDER S. ...
J.M. CARLISLE

An artist can try and pretend he is not following rules, but let's remember that nature itself provi...
KATE CARLISLE

He had made a vow to defend his country against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
He’d neve...
LISA CARLISLE

The more you miss something, the greater the appeal.
LISA CARLISLE

Her eyelids lowered, and her irises darkened a shade, flickering with unmistakable desire. “All I ...
LISA CARLISLE

I just liked the idea of being engaged.
BELINDA CARLISLE

I had no musical training at all.
BELINDA CARLISLE

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
BELINDA CARLISLE

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.
BELINDA CARLISLE

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and go...
BELINDA CARLISLE

He was an excellent trial lawyer, loved criminal practice and pretty much tried to concentrate on th...
MARSHALL CARLISLE

He was a good people reader, and Murphy was smart. He knew the tricks of the trade.
MARSHALL CARLISLE

Morale had held quite steady until this year.
KAREN CARLISLE

Low morale plus low loyalty equals high turnover. That can hobble a company.
KAREN CARLISLE

Some of the items were still in dry cleaning bags. The AJ community was especially generous. I could...
KITTY CARLISLE

A lot of these athletes, their objective is to sustain their quest for the next Olympics, not having...
PETER CARLISLE

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.
KITTY CARLISLE

Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
EDDIE FLOYD

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.
EDDIE FLOYD

Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.
EDDIE FLOYD

The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
EDDIE FLOYD

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
EDDIE FLOYD

I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
EDDIE FLOYD

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
EDDIE FLOYD

For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. ...
FLOYD SKLOOT

In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived wit...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
FLOYD SKLOOT

Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep beca...
FLOYD SKLOOT

In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never hav...
FLOYD SKLOOT

A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or gluco...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can an...
FLOYD SKLOOT

A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me disc...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our se...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel wit...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from ...
FLOYD SKLOOT

If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, stic...
FLOYD SKLOOT

My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large she...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life dr...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Sa...
FLOYD SKLOOT

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgett...
FLOYD SKLOOT

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found tha...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a mome...
FLOYD SKLOOT

At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow s...
FLOYD SKLOOT

When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
FLOYD SKLOOT

For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
FLOYD PATTERSON

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
FLOYD PATTERSON

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
FLOYD PATTERSON

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step clo...
FLOYD PATTERSON

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the high...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a ca...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best wa...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have e...
FLOYD ABRAMS

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
FLOYD ABRAMS

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years...
FLOYD ABRAMS

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be ve...
FLOYD ABRAMS

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and...
FLOYD ABRAMS

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer abo...
FLOYD ABRAMS

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometim...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawye...
FLOYD ABRAMS

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this an...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even g...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn'...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The N...
FLOYD ABRAMS

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law...
FLOYD ABRAMS

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think o...
FLOYD ABRAMS

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.

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