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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.

Hans Zimmer

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Hans Zimmer
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 12
Composer
Film Composer
Film Score Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
Record Producer
Frankfurt/Main
Hans Florian Zimmer
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The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I'm like some Monk. I don't see a lot of daylight. I hang out with musicians, I hang out with directors and I just try to spend as much of my life as possible playing music.
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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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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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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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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.
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The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.
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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 have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.
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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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If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.
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As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.
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I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.
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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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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.
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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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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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As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.
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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.
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Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.
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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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