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John Corigliano Quotes

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

John Corigliano

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 16, 1938

Topics

Past Revolution Build Everything

Books and people are hard to compare.

Andrew Clements

People Hard Books Compare

During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.

Challenges Fighting Attention Lost

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Guitar Down Two Up Aspirations Put

I'm thankful to God that my life changed, but I'm also still on my grind.

Life God Thankful My Life Grind

I like vampires.

After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just wanted to take a year off. And I had a friend that lived in Los Angeles, said I could crash on his couch. And so I just kind of did the first really spontaneous thing I'd done in my young adult life.

Life Friend Grief Team Year You

Gabriel Gonzaga is a very solid fighter, and I've seen some of his fights. He's a tough guy.

Tough Fighter Tough Guy Seen Guy He

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

History Student Go Want Become Dig

Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

You Television Out Watch Because

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.

Myself Writing World Create Go Try

All these Lil' rappers, I'm just kind of getting real irritated by it. I said, 'You know what? Drop the Lil'. Forget it. I'm Bow Wow.

You Know Said Forget Kind Real

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

Poetry People Me Think Doing Seeing

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