--- title: Harrison Ford Can't Escape the Indiana Jones Theme Music description: In a speech honoring John Williams, Harrison Ford said the Indiana Jones theme song follows him wherever he goes. canonical: https://time.com/4364491/harrison-ford-indiana-jones-theme-song/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-10T17:36:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:16.391Z og:title: Harrison Ford Can't Escape the Indiana Jones Theme Music og:description: "That damn music follows me everywhere." og:url: https://time.com/4364491/harrison-ford-indiana-jones-theme-song/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd444b3f5e832a5fb/6988974d196cf4095a03bf6f/harrison-ford-indiana-jones-theme-song.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: American Film Institutes 44th Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to John Williams - Backstage And Audience og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Harrison Ford Can't Escape the Indiana Jones Theme Music twitter:description: "That damn music follows me everywhere." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd444b3f5e832a5fb/6988974d196cf4095a03bf6f/harrison-ford-indiana-jones-theme-song.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Harrison Ford Can't Escape the Indiana Jones Theme Song > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 10, 2016 5:36 PM UTC  HOLLYWOOD, CA - JUNE 09: Actor Harrison Ford poses in the audience during American Film Institute’s 44th Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to John Williams (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AFI) HOLLYWOOD, CA - JUNE 09: Actor Harrison Ford poses in the audience during American Film Institute’s 44th Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to John Williams (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AFI) Michael Kovac—Getty Images for AFI  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 10, 2016 5:36 PM UTC It’s been more than 30 years since we met [Harrison Ford’s](http://time.com/4259592/harrison-ford-force-awakens-sneak-peak/) [Indiana Jones](http://time.com/4259611/indiana-jones-harrison-ford-steven-spielberg/) in _Raiders of the Lost Ark,_ but the actor says that the franchise’s theme music still follows him wherever he goes. According to [_E! News_](http://www.eonline.com/news/771723/harrison-ford-i-can-t-get-away-from-that-damn-indiana-jones-theme-music), during a speech honoring the theme’s composer, John Williams, at the American Film Institute Life Achievement gala, Ford had plenty of jokes about his situations he’s found himself in where people play the song — from awards shows to on the street. “That damn music follows me everywhere. They play it every time I walk on stage, every time I walk off a stage. It was playing in the operating room when I went in for my colonoscopy,” the 73-year-old actor said. “I was walking down a crowded street in New York a couple of months ago and there was a big fire truck stuck in traffic that I passed in the opposite direction,” he continued. “Some guy leaned out of the cab and gave me one of those \[Ford makes a groaning noise\]. By the time I got to the end of the truck that music was blaring out of the loud speakers in the truck!” Ford ended his speech with a salutation to Williams, who has won five Oscars from 50 nominations for works including _Jaws_, _Star Wars_, and _Harry Potter_. “To play a character graced by John’s music, of course, is a real gift,” Ford said. “Music is the spice, it’s the salt and pepper in every film recipe that brings the whole thing together.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4364491/harrison-ford-indiana-jones-theme-song/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4364491/harrison-ford-indiana-jones-theme-song/"},"headline":"Harrison Ford Can't Escape the Indiana Jones Theme Song","datePublished":"2016-06-10T17:36:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:16.391Z","description":"\"That damn music follows me everywhere.\"","url":"https://time.com/4364491/harrison-ford-indiana-jones-theme-song/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrities","celebrity","harrison ford"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd444b3f5e832a5fb/6988974d196cf4095a03bf6f/harrison-ford-indiana-jones-theme-song.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd444b3f5e832a5fb/6988974d196cf4095a03bf6f/harrison-ford-indiana-jones-theme-song.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"American Film Institutes 44th Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to John Williams - Backstage And Audience","caption":"American Film Institutes 44th Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to John Williams - Backstage And Audience","creditText":"Michael Kovac—Getty Images for AFI","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4364491/harrison-ford-indiana-jones-theme-song/","name":"Harrison Ford Can't Escape the Indiana Jones Theme Song"}}]}] ```