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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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I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.
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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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The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.
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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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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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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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Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have 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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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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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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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 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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As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.
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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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