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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
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Hans Florian Zimmer
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.
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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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The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.
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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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Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.
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Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?
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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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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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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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I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.
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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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