Corigliano Quotes

To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community. — R. David Lankes

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

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. — Max Beerbohm

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

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

Never forget the way you pulled closer - wanting it to feel like my heart was beating inside your chest. — Colleen Hoover

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

Art is not only about angst. — John Corigliano

It is not that love makes up for everything but rather that everything in the world can not make up for love. — Roumen Bezergianov

If you get good ratings, they'll cover you even if you have nothing to say. — Donald Trump

We are individually responsible for our own happiness and destiny — Margo Vader

My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren. — Joanne Woodward

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

I have tremendous respect for film composers. — John Corigliano

PAINT the leaves as they grow! If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the world,' John Ruskin — John Ruskin

the man who has the soul of the wolf
knows the self-restraint
of the wolf — Gary Snyder

And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair. — Vanilla Ice

I think art can reflect tragedy. — John Corigliano

It's our job to do everything possible to keep the international community's focus on MH17. That's our obligation to the victims and their loved ones. — Sergey Lavrov

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

It's not the people in your life that tell you what you want to hear, it's the people in your life that tell you the truth that count. — Derek Preston

In the face of every reason for breaking don't break because if nothing, absolutely nothing else I'm here with my hand on you. You're not alone. — Glen Duncan

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

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