“One of the secrets of his music is that he’s referring to the collective memory and he does it with his own language, especially his own orchestrations. You can immediately tell the colour and see the power of his music. This is very unique in the history of film-music. A lot of it does not survive when you play it on a concert platfrom without the picture. But the music of John Williams is really concert music. ” (Dirk Brossé)