John Williams Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.”

“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.”

“As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.”

“Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.”

“I think of myself as a film composer.”