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

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

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

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 athle…

- John Towner Williams

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

- John Towner Williams

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between…

- John Towner Williams

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

- 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