“Six times during my life has this tomb of my soul led me to the brink of that eternal darkness into which… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
“The past gathered out of the darkness where it stayed, and the dead raised themselves to live before him; and the past… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Stoner and Masters smiled at each other, and they spoke no more of the question that evening. But for years afterward, at… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through strange seas… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“He had, in odd ways, given it to every moment of his life, and had perhaps given it most fully when he… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“He was silent for a long time as he looked from face to face. He heard his voice issue flatly. "I have… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“For several moments he did not move from the doorway: he heard the girl’s soft, thin voice rise above the murmur of… — John Williams Copy Share Image
Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job. — John Williams Copy Share Image
“The dying are selfish, he thought; they want their moments to themselves, like children.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Within a few moments he was immersed in his work. The evening before, he had caught up with the routine of his… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“She turned to him and pulled her lips in what he knew must be a smile. “Not at all. I’m having a… — John Williams Copy Share Image
There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march. — John Williams Copy Share Image
“He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“That is the very best time of life, he thought again: when you are very young, when living is a simple, perfect… — John Williams Copy Share Image
What was so scary about it was it was still school time, the kids were walking around. There as a group of… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true. — John Williams Copy Share Image
You never write a theme for a movie thinking, 'This will live forever.' — John Williams Copy Share Image
“For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
