American - Composer | February 8, 1932 -
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
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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.
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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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As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.
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I am so lucky to be working in a field that you never grow tired of.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You never write a theme for a movie thinking, 'This will live forever.'
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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.
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Composing music is hard work.
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