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

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Source : "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

John Corigliano

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“For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.”
“There is just so very much I can't do. I don't drive, for one.”
“I'm not really into musicals.”
“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.”
“If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.”
“I look at road marathons as a totally different sport. Those guys are stupid fast. It is unbelievable. I might be a top ultrarunner, but put me in the field with those guys and I'm just another guy trying to break three hours. Road-running is far more competitive. In ultrarunning, after these long races, we all chat with each other at the end and have a beer. The camaraderie is awesome. But don't get me wrong, winning is fun.”

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“For whatever reason, the success still blows my mind - that I'm able to talk to people about the music I've written. I always felt like there was something there because you don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically. I don't mess with that. It's more about just music and trying to keep the integrity, I guess.”
“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.”

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