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There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.


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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 I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
RAY FLOYD Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking f...
KEITH FLOYD