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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.

~John Williams

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

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I'm happy to be busy. I'm happy to have a wonderful family.

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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.

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I think of myself as a film composer.

~John Williams

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I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood.

~John Williams

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: February 8th, 1932

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