Composer Quote by John Corigliano

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

— John Corigliano

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow…

— Jennifer Egan

Winning the Pulitzer is a really mellow, fabulous thing. You don't sit and wait for them to open an envelope. You already know you…

— John Patrick Shanley

Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit…

— Richard Harris

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every…

— David Baldacci

I think that this win [Grammy] in particular was a cool moment for me and the director [Emil Nava], because it was the first…

— Ed Sheeran

I think that the Pulitzer Prize is definitely a blessing, but it's also a curse. Because I think that it is a blessing because…

— Nilo Cruz

I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.

— Elizabeth Cotten

I have no idea why I won, man. I guess some people liked the music that I was doing. I'm just lucky. I was…

— Phillip Phillips

Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, and a little voice in the back of my mind reminding me that, "If you don't…

— Clarence Page

I didn't get into music to win awards. I love to play and the older I get the more I love it. And I…

— Sam Bush

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

— Nicole Kidman