John Corigliano Quotes

John Corigliano — American Composer born on February 16, 1938,

John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music. His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Oscar. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York and on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School... (wikipedia)

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

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.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

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.

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