I think art can reflect tragedy.
quote by John Corigliano
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
I have tremendous respect for film composers.
quote by John Corigliano
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.
quote by John Corigliano
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.
quote by John Corigliano
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.
quote by John Corigliano
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
quote by John Corigliano
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
quote by John Corigliano
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.
quote by John Corigliano
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.
quote by John Corigliano
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!