Carlisle Floyd Quotes

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others, but it wasn't premeditated.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

I am an inventor of music.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.

The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.

I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

I been doing music my whole life.

I was working at a non-profit for five years. But I could always create music after work. All throughout those years, I was writing songs and recording music and performing around town.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility.

Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.