| John Adams: Official site. Biography, list of works with program notes, photographs, interviews, articles, essays, upcoming performances, links, news, and discography. |
| Adams, John Coolidge: Educational background, styles and genres, and significant compositions from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio. |
| G. Schirmer: John Adams: Biography, selected discography, work list, reviews, upcoming performances. |
| Infoplease: John Adams: (1947- ) Biography. |
| James Wierzbicki: John Adams: Remarks on "Nixon in China" and "The Death of Klinghoffer." |
| John Adams: Biography, discography. |
| John Adams: Listing at the Lied and Art Songs Text Page with selected lyrics. |
| John Adams: Filmography noting movies and television programs scored and those using his works from the Internet Movie Database. |
| John Adams: Biographical sketch, commentary on his stage and orchestral works, and Naxos discography. |
| John Adams: A Vast Synthesising Approach: He discusses the creative process, his early days, branding, Naive and Sentimental Music, minimalism, Shaker Loops, scales, computer automation of composition, and other topics. Interviewed by Robert Davidson. |
| John Coolidge Adams: Wikipedia article with biographical and musical information, internal references to related people and topics, list of notable works, and links. |
| NewMusicBox: Issue 21 - January 2001: Twelve interviews with the composer with many links embedded in the text. |
| San Francisco Symphony: Adams, John: Picture and biography. |
| Steven G. Estrella: Adams, John: List of works and bibliography. |