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The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.
Hans Zimmer
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Hans Zimmer
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 12
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Film Composer
Film Score Composer
Guitarist
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Pianist
Record Producer
Frankfurt/Main
Hans Florian Zimmer
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More quotes by Hans Zimmer
All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.
Hans Zimmer
A violin is nothing more than a piece of wood and a dead cat. But it's a piece of technology. So when computers came along, in the '70s, I suddenly thought, hang on a second, this is interesting. These things can become an instrument. So I just became very interested in them, and started, playing with electronics.
Hans Zimmer
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
Hans Zimmer
I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream, and I usually come up with some ideas... It's a very irresponsible life. The only decisions I make are about the notes I'm writing.
Hans Zimmer
Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.
Hans Zimmer
What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure
Hans Zimmer
The honest truth is that it was just traumatizing with the piano, with the authority of the piano teacher, getting rapped across the knuckles, and so whenever you put a piece of music in front of me, there's a Pavlovian reaction where it starts off.
Hans Zimmer
If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why I get up in the morning.
Hans Zimmer
I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.
Hans Zimmer
I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.
Hans Zimmer
You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.
Hans Zimmer
There's a power that movies and music has, that can move you and motivate you to look at your neighbor in a slightly more respectful way, and look at cultures in a more inclusive way.
Hans Zimmer
I try to communicate with the musicians the way I communicate with the filmmakers. I'm not going to say to them, can we be a little bit more presto here. Hang on, this should be a bit more exciting, or I try to explain the scene to them, or I try to explain the context the notes are supposed to live in.
Hans Zimmer
Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.
Hans Zimmer
Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.
Hans Zimmer
Trust me, if you're working on a $70 million movie and you're the last guy, you feel all that weight on your shoulders.
Hans Zimmer
If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.
Hans Zimmer
Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music
Hans Zimmer
The challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go, Okay, let's throw everything out that we had before and let's just see it as an autonomous movie, and let's just start again.
Hans Zimmer
You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.
Hans Zimmer