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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.

Hans Zimmer

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Hans Zimmer
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 12
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I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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 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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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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All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.
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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.
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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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Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have 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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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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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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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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