What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.
John CoriglianoIf you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.
John Corigliano