Composer Quote by John Corigliano

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

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

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

I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means…

— Wadada Leo Smith

If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.

— Martin Landau

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 don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means…

— Wadada Leo Smith

An award recognizing your talent is an honor. That matters a lot to me.

— Payal Rohatgi

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either.…

— Quincy Jones

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

— Annie Dillard

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

— Stephen Sondheim

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