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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.
Hans Zimmer
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Hans Zimmer
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 12
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Frankfurt/Main
Hans Florian Zimmer
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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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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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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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As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.
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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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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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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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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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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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Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.
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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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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 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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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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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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Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?
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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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Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.
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