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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 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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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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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 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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Having the great opportunity on a daily basis to sit in front of a blank page is terrifying, and at the same time really exciting. I can't actually get better at my job, because every time you finish something you start with a blank page, with nothing.
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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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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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As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.
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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 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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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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All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.
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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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Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?
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Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.
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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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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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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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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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