You have to look through the short-term fluctuations of things, look to the next year or two ahead and think about where is the economy going to be, monetary policy as we know takes a year or two to have its full effects. John Williams More Quotes by John Williams More Quotes From John Williams Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job. John Williams jobhollywoodtimeworld I think of myself as a film composer. John Williams i-thinkmyselfthinkfilm 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. John Williams goodmusicworkteacher I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true. John Williams absolutelytruestargo You never write a theme for a movie thinking, 'This will live forever.' John Williams liveneveryouthinking 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. John Williams bestcooperationcompetitionworld I fell in love immediately with Daisy Ridley. She is just a superstar born. John Williams shejustbornlove 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. John Williams lookknowyoualways I'm happy to be busy. I'm happy to have a wonderful family. John Williams familybusywonderfulhappy 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 concertsmalldonework 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 Williams youworkbluetime For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway. John Williams connectionmefamilystrong When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park. John Williams cityyousoulheart I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood. John Williams moviesonlynevermusic As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that. John Williams othersdoingjustyoung When I'm finished with a film, I've been living with it, we've been dubbing it, recording to it, and so on. You walk out of the studio and, 'Ah, it's finished.' John Williams walkyoulivingfilm I'm still embracing my cat and dogs. John Williams These researchers squirted the virus down the cats noses in high concentration, which is pretty artificial. John Williams It's necessary to have an animal model to do initial tests of vaccines and understand how viruses cause disease. So, this will be useful to the field. John Williams So usually if a virus goes from an animal to a human, it's sort of dead end. That person gets sick but it doesn't spread further. John Williams
