The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don’t build on the past. There is no past. John Corigliano Read Quote
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. John Corigliano Read Quote
Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. John Corigliano Read Quote
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 from England. John Corigliano Read Quote
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. John Corigliano Read Quote
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. John Corigliano Read Quote
The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge. John Corigliano Read Quote
