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

~John Corigliano

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I have tremendous respect for film composers.

~John Corigliano

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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

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I think art can reflect tragedy.

~John Corigliano

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Art is not only about angst.

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

~John Corigliano

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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.

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

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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: February 16th, 1938

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