On June 3, 2026, in New York, the spotlight turned once again to the legacy of John Williams. But over on the airwaves, a surprising revelation about his personal tastes has hosts talking. On No Such Thing As A Fish, host Dan Schreiber dropped a bombshell fact: "John Williams, the composer of soundtracks like Jaws, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones, doesn't actually like film music."
This apparent paradox—that the man behind cinema's most iconic scores isn't a fan of the medium—sparked immediate agreement from co-host Anna Ptaszynski. She jumped in to defend the sentiment, arguing that "film music is only good when you're watching the film, 'cause it's meant to be background to the thing that's happening." Ptaszynski even took a swipe at radio programmers who play these scores out of context, calling it "always so annoying when Classic FM... does Classic FM at the Movies."
While some purists might find it sacrilegious that the master of the craft dislikes his own genre, the No Such Thing As A Fish crew views it as a logical take on the functional nature of soundtracks. Whether this revelation changes how fans listen to John Williams' classics remains to be seen, but it certainly reframes the relationship between the composer and his legendary body of work.