The Guardian: Composer John Williams says he 'never liked film music very much'

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https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...usic-very-much

“I never liked film music very much,” he confessed in a rare interview for a forthcoming biography.

He added: “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. That, what we think of as this precious great film music is … we’re remembering it in some kind of nostalgic way …

Just the idea that film music has the same place in the concert hall as the best music in the canon is a mistaken notion, I think.”

A bitter pill, perhaps, for some folks, but he's absolutely right.