Letter from Philippus of Athens to Lucius Annaeus Seneca…

“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so…

— John Williams

“Saying, ain’t doing.”

— John Williams

In general, we continue to believe that local governments should not have a competitive advantage when competing with the private sector, and they should…

— John Williams

I honestly haven't done all that counting. It always feels new and a wonderful honor to receive these things. It's a fresh feeling.

— John Williams

Composing music is hard work.

— John Williams

“For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.”

— John Williams

You never write a theme for a movie thinking, 'This will live forever.'

— John Williams

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

— John Williams

“But I can see what has ensued. A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It…

— John Williams

“Six times during my life has this tomb of my soul led me to the brink of that eternal darkness into which all men…

— John Williams

“Dispassionately, reasonably, he contemplated the failutre that his life must appear to be. He had wanted friendship and the closeness of friendship that might…

— John Williams

I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art.' Music is there for everybody. It's a river we can all put…

— John Williams

“It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit of knowledge,…

— John Williams

“What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old Republic had no correspondence to the…

— John Williams

There is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming…All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in 2001 and…

— John Williams