John Towner Williams Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

My God, to read without joy is stupid.

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

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