The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. — 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
