"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."

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Source : "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 01, 2005.

John Corigliano

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“Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.”
“I was tired of an outlaw's life.”
“I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.”
“Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.”

Source : Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”
“I guess chemistry always changes when you play with someone else.”

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“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”
“It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.”
“Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.”

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