14 John Williams Quotes for You to Enjoy

John Williams

American Composer

Born: Feb 8, 1932

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As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music. John Williams

Music Writing Living Earning Dreamed Could Never Youngster Actually Career

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

Work Relief Composer Variation Restrictions Small Small Part Part Demands Pieces Instruction Concert Sought Been Done Frustrated Film

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

Hope Fans Sense See Force Make Felt Hear References Aural Referred Want Them Theme Connections

To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one's longevity and health. John Williams

Work Love Health You Longevity Continue Contributing To Love Certainly Element

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

Work Music Good Vision Depend Think Easily Oneself Piano Feel Still Very Arthritis Hands Any Rewarding Deprive Much Working Your Reason Fun Lucky Play

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

Work Teacher Music Good Focus Think Enough Could Piano Wrote Always Friends Quite Worked Hard Believed Player Playing

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

Best Wonderful World Competition Healthy Kind Between Countries Metaphor Represents Us International Wholesome Cooperation Olympics

I fell in love immediately with Daisy Ridley. She is just a superstar born. John Williams

Love Immediately Born Superstar Fell She Just Daisy

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

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I'm happy to be busy. I'm happy to have a wonderful family. John Williams

Family Happy Wonderful Busy

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that. John Williams

Young Others Pianist Comfortable Felt Doing Began Just Hollywood Really

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

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