Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by John Towner Williams

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American composer John Towner Williams.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that has spanned seven decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history. Williams has won 25 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. With 52 Academy Award nominations, he is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. His compositions are considered the epitome of film music and he is considered among the greatest composers in the history of cinema.

American - Composer | Born: February 8, 1932

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Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

John Towner Williams

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

John Towner Williams

I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.

John Towner Williams

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

John Towner Williams

There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.

John Towner Williams

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

John Towner Williams

A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.

John Towner 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 Towner Williams

My God, to read without joy is stupid.

John Towner Williams

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Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by John Towner Williams

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