Quotes from John Towner Williams

My God, to read without joy is stupid.

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

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.

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.

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