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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
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"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."
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"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."
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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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"Composers are always going back to the past."
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"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers."
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"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."
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"Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully."
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"There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!"
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Explore more quotes by John Corigliano
"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."
People
"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."
Beginning
"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."
Challenge
"Art is not only about angst."
Art
"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."
Love
"I think art can reflect tragedy."
Art
"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
Revolution
"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
Now
"I have tremendous respect for film composers."
Composer
"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."
Beginning
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