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John Towner Williams

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history, including the Star Wars series, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, the first two Home Alone films, the first two Jurassic Park films, Schindler's List, and the first three Harry Potter films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three of his feature films. Other notable works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, "The Mission" theme used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the incidental music for the first season of Gilligan's Island. Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. From 1980 to 1993 he served as the Boston Pops's principal conductor, and is currently the orchestra's laureate conductor.

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Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

Age, Boy, Boys, Memories, Memory, Middle

You may need to refresh

Funeral, May, Needs, Refresh

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

Learning, Lust

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.

Admired, Looking, Musically, People, Player, Way

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.

Frustrated, Part, Pieces, Relief, Variation

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

Chap, Death, Die, Dying, Pick, Way

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.

Boston, Brains, Faneuil, Harvard, Heart, Thinking

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

Athlete, Coaches, School, Talk, Teacher, Teachers

My God, to read without joy is stupid.

God, Joy, Read, Stupid

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

Brazil, Devalue, May, Perception, Problems

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.

Blue, Eighth, Inspiration, Vanities, Vanity

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.

Articulation, Expression, Human, Language, Needs, 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.

Done, Ephemeral, Gratifying, Linger, Memories, People

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.

Competition, Countries, Country, Healthy, Interplay, Olympics