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

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• John Corigliano:

  I have tremendous respect for film composers.

• John Corigliano:

  The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most fi

• John Corigliano:

  I think art can reflect tragedy.

• John Corigliano:

  Art is not only about angst.

• John Corigliano:

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

• John Corigliano:

  I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and

• John Corigliano:

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

• John Corigliano:

  Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but som

• John Corigliano:

  Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A

• John Corigliano:

  What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that