Top 45 John Williams Quotes

Words matter. These are the best John Williams Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotte

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.
John Williams
To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one’s longevity and health.
John Williams
I let it go. I have not looked at the ‘Star Wars’ films, and that’s absolutely true.
John Williams
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.
John Williams
I let it go. I have not looked at the ‘Star Wars’ films, and that’s absolutely true.
John Williams
As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.
John Williams
I think of myself as a film composer.
John Williams
Composing music is hard work.
John Williams
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
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
I am so lucky to be working in a field that you never grow tired of.
John Williams
I fell in love immediately with Daisy Ridley. She is just a superstar born.
John Williams
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
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
I’m happy to be busy. I’m happy to have a wonderful family.
John Williams
For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.
John Williams
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
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
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.
John Williams
There are occasionally eureka moments – off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader’s theme, you know, the imperial march.
John Williams
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
Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
John Williams
I am so lucky to be working in a field that you never grow tired of.
John Williams
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
As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.
John Williams
I think of myself as a film composer.
John Williams
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
As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.
John Williams
As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.
John Williams
You never write a theme for a movie thinking, ‘This will live forever.’
John Williams
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
To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, i

To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one’s longevity and health.
John Williams
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
For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.
John Williams
Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
John Williams
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
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.
John Williams
You never write a theme for a movie thinking, ‘This will live forever.’
John Williams
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
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
Composing music is hard work.
John Williams
I fell in love immediately with Daisy Ridley. She is just a superstar born.
John Williams
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
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
I’m happy to be busy. I’m happy to have a wonderful family.
John Williams