If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
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… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
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… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
