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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so."
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"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."
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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."
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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times."
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Explore more quotes by John Corigliano
"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
"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
Now
"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."
Beginning
"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."
American
"I have tremendous respect for film composers."
Composer
"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
"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 French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
Revolution
"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
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