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John Williams Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 8, 1932

Topics

Work Small Done Concert Pieces Film

I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.

Jessie J

Flower Live Hair Fake Used Gap

Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.

John Bytheway

Good Honesty Good Night Kiss Night

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Updike

Short You House Must Like Improvise

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.

Sophia Bush

Marriage Me Now Hollywood Joke Been

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.

Simon Cowell

World Lady You Boring She Singer

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

Ruth Brown

Best Thought You Find Try Sound

I look to a lot of artists who don't focus on one medium, who you can't pigeonhole.

Mickalene Thomas

Focus You Look Artists Who Medium

I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don't want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I'm feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious.

Louise Bourgeois

Anxiety Drawing Down I Can Know Way

Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything.

Johnny Miller

Nobody Know Say Anything Jack About

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Augusten Burroughs

Dreams Your Dreams Childhood People

I am a Yes fan, ultimately. I've been a member of the band, but I was always a fan of the band first.

Rick Wakeman

I Am Band First Always Yes Been

I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in.

Ryan Murphy

Children World Think Better Everyone