John Williams is a composer who needs no introduction. Over the span of his 70-year career , he has crafted scores for over 100 films, earning five Academy Awards and 54 Oscar nominations with his work on seminal pop culture films, including Superman , Jaws , Star Wars , Indiana Jones , Jurassic Park , and Home Alone . However, the legendary composer, now 93, says he doesn’t think too highly of film music.

In a recent interview with the Guardian , Williams said that, despite the power film music has as an art underscoring film, “I never liked film music very much.”

“Film music, however good it can be—and it usually isn’t, other than maybe an eight-minute stretch here and there… I just think the music isn’t there,” Williams said. “That, what we think of as this precious

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