"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."

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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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“One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. Weâ€™ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.”

Source : "Fractal Mode". Book by Piers Anthony, January, 1992.
“If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.”
“You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.”

Source : "Satires".
“There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.”
“Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.”
“However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.”
“I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.”
“Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that he has never bothered to do so because it's not normal; that he has decided to set aside his fanatical dedication to living like a normal person so I can have a studio big enough to roller-skate across; that I am being an ingrate. "Clare? Earth to Clare..." "Thank you," I say, too abruptly.”

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