Quotes about John Corigliano

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now...

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What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of...

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The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects,...

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The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past....

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Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture...

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I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award...

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I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students...

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I think art can reflect tragedy.

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I have tremendous respect for film composers.

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I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American,...

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I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think...

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I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

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