Quotes by John Williams - Page 1

Composing music is hard work.
John Williams / Scientist
Composing
Hard Work
Work Music Hard Work
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I think of myself as a film composer.
John Williams / Scientist
Composer
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I'm happy to be busy. I'm happy to have a wonderful family.
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Busy
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I am so lucky to be working in a field that you never grow tired of.
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Lucky
Tired
Grow
Working
Field
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You never write a theme for a movie thinking, 'This will live forever.'
John Williams / Scientist
Movie
Forever
Theme
Thinking
Write
Live Will Never
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I fell in love immediately with Daisy Ridley. She is just a superstar born.
John Williams / Scientist
Superstar
Daisy
Immediately
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I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.
John Williams / Scientist
Absolutely
Star
Wars
Looked
Star Wars
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Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
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Consuming
Orchestra
Laborious
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As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.
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Earning
Writing
Career
Dreamed
Youngster
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For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.
John Williams / Scientist
Boston
Connected
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As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.
John Williams / Scientist
Comfortable
Hollywood
Pianist
Began
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There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.
John Williams / Scientist
March
Moments
Theme
Vader
Darth
Eureka
Off
Head
Imperial
Maybe
Occasionally
Top
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To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one's longevity and health.
John Williams / Scientist
Work
Health
Longevity
Certainly
Continue
Element
To Love
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I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood.
John Williams / Scientist
Hollywood
Orchestra
Became
Interested
Studio
Youngster
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So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
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Done
Ephemeral
Forgotten
Memories
People
Much
Even
Gratifying
Ourselves
Linger
Quickly
Something
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When I'm finished with a film, I've been living with it, we've been dubbing it, recording to it, and so on. You walk out of the studio and, 'Ah, it's finished.'
John Williams / Scientist
Ah
Recording
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I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art.' Music is there for everybody. It's a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.
John Williams / Scientist
Art
Music
Cups
Distinction
Drink
High Art
Particular
Everybody
Make
Between
High
Low
Put
River
Sustained
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The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
John Williams / Scientist
Competition
Cooperation
Healthy
International
Metaphor
Olympics
Wonderful
Countries
Wholesome
Represents
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I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.
John Williams / Scientist
Teacher
Focus
Work Good Music
Work Good Teacher
Quite
Believed
Worked
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I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.
John Williams / Scientist
Composer
Film
Frustrated
Instruction
Relief
Variation
Concert
Demands
Small
Restrictions
Small Part
Sought
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When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.
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Boston
Church
Harvard
Brains
Hall
Park
Pounding
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When we see Rey, we want to hear Rey's theme, and when the Force is referred to or felt, we want to hear the Force theme, and so on. We hope that these references make sense to the fans and make the aural connections that we want them to have.
John Williams / Scientist
Connections
Theme
Aural
References
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There is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming....All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in 2001 and that Arctic ice melting is related to cyclical orbit-tilt-axis changes in earth's angle to the sun.
John Williams / Scientist
Axes
Ice
Tilt
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Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.
John Williams / Scientist
Blue
Composer
Inspiration
Labour
Painter
Preconceptions
Time Work Will
Bolt
Eighth
Working
Hour
Rather
Sculptor
Tell
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I feel very lucky, and the work that I do doesn't depend on much. If your vision's still good, and your hands - I have no arthritis in my hands, and I play the piano very easily - I don't think there's any reason to deprive oneself of the fun of working. Music is so rewarding.
John Williams / Scientist
Arthritis
Fun
Lucky
Oneself
Reason
Vision
Work Good Music
Easily
Depend
Deprive
Working
Rewarding
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I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.
John Williams / Scientist
If I Could
Location
Preconceptions
Projection
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