"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."

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

John Corigliano

#Awards Quotes #Grew Up Quotes #Composer Quotes

“Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.”
“The only â€˜realisticâ€™ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the exception, with no taboos, no a priori norms (â€˜human rights,â€™ â€˜democracyâ€™), respect for which would prevent us from â€˜resignifyingâ€™ terror, the ruthless exercise of power, the spirit of sacrifice â€¦ if this radical choice is decried by some bleeding-heart liberals as Linksfaschismus, so be it!”
“It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale.”
“The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.”
“Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.”
“I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.”
“Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'”
“Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?”

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