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I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

- John Williams
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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, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.

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 our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.

I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.

I feel very lucky, and the work that I do doesn't depend on much. If your vision's still good, and your hands - I have no arthritis in my hands, and I play the piano very easily - I don't think there's any reason to deprive oneself of the fun of working. Music is so rewarding.

When we see Rey, we want to hear Rey's theme, and when the Force is referred to or felt, we want to hear the Force theme, and so on. We hope that these references make sense to the fans and make the aural connections that we want them to have.

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

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.

You never write a theme for a movie thinking, 'This will live forever.'

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I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.