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 m…

- John Towner Williams

My God, to read without joy is stupid.

- 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.…

- John Towner Williams

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- 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…

- John Towner Williams

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

- John Towner 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 me…

- John Towner 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, var…

- John Towner Williams

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

- John Towner Williams