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Top 15 John Corigliano Quotes (2025 Update)

John Corigliano Quote: “The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don’t build on the past. There is no past.”

1. “The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don’t build on the past. There is no past.”

— John Corigliano

John Corigliano Quote: “I think art can reflect tragedy.”

2. “I think art can reflect tragedy.”

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John Corigliano Quote: “Art is not only about angst.”

3. “Art is not only about angst.”

— John Corigliano

John Corigliano 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.”

4. “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

John Corigliano Quote: “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.”

5. “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

John Corigliano Quote: “You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it’s a completely meaningless award.”

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

— John Corigliano

John Corigliano Quote: “If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there’s about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.”

7. “If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there’s about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.”

— John Corigliano

John Corigliano Quote: “I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.”

8. “I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.”

— John Corigliano

John Corigliano 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.”

9. “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

John Corigliano 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.”

10. “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

John Corigliano Quote: “I don’t think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.”

11. “I don’t think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.”

— John Corigliano

John Corigliano Quote: “I have tremendous respect for film composers.”

12. “I have tremendous respect for film composers.”

— John Corigliano

John Corigliano 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.”

13. “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

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

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

— John Corigliano

John Corigliano 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.”

15. “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

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