Zitat des Tages von 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.
As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.
I'm happy to be busy. I'm happy to have a wonderful family.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think of myself as a film composer.
Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.