John Williams Quotations | Page 2

People are certainly tuned in to the discussions about the reliance on foreign oil, and gas prices are going up. We're not suggesting that everybody wake up and sell their car tomorrow, but for a certain slice of people, car share is the way to go.

It's been a process. George and I started with two people and 1,000 square feet. We just kept knocking out walls.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

We were shocked and dismayed that one of our teachers would be involved in something like this. Teachers are held to the highest standards, and again, we are shocked.

It's said that it takes elements like this to remind us there are still dangerous currents out in the community.