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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.

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 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'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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The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.
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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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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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As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.
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Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.
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Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.
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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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All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.
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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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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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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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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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