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John Corigliano quotes: I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

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

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

John Corigliano quotes: The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

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

John Corigliano quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Art is not only about angst.

Art is not only about angst.

John Corigliano quotes: I have tremendous respect for film composers.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

John Corigliano quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

John Corigliano quotes: Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

John Corigliano quotes: I think art can reflect tragedy.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

John Corigliano quotes: 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.

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.