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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.

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Hans Zimmer
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 12
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Film Composer
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Frankfurt/Main
Hans Florian Zimmer
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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.
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I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.
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Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
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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.
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Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.
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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.
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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.
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All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.
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I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.
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I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.
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As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.
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Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.
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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.
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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.
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If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.
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I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.
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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
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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
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When I was 13, when I was 14, when I was in England, yeah all I wanted to do was go and see The Who, go and see The Stones.
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