Hans Zimmer Quotes

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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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  Writing, Feelings, Want

  "Composer Hans Zimmer Speaks Out Against 'Interstellar' Sound Critics" by Kirsten Acuna, www.businessinsider.com. November 18, 2014.

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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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  Life, Adventure, Needs

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• If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

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  Directors, Fifty, Music Is

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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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  Play, Looks, Pieces

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone before, stand on its own two feet and still serve the movie. A great soundtrack is all about communicating with the audience, but we all try to bring something extra to the movie that is not entirely evident on screen.

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  Views, Should Have, Two

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• You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

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  Failing, Only Time

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• I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

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  Heart, Trying, Complicated

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• Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

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  Sound, Too Short, Life's Too Short

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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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  Wife, Car, Buying

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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.

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  Thinking, Class, Musician

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?

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  Morning, Adventure, Get Up

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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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  Fun

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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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  Moving, Way, Culture

  Source: collider.com

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• The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have a playfulness about it. As the world shifts, it's starting to understand more and more that to have a playfulness about any and everything is actually the way of having a better life, or being more creative, or being more productive.

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  Fun, Thinking, Play

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• Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

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  Scripts, Inspired, Arise

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2012

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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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  Jobs, Real, School

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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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  Morning, Jobs, Writing

  FaceBook post by Hans Zimmer from Oct 23, 2011

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• What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

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  World, Saving, Defense Mechanisms

  "Song: 'What Are You Going to Do When You Are Not Saving the World?' (Album: Man of Steel)". 2013.

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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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  Hollywood, Stories, Beats

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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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  Wind, Play, Interesting

  "From 'Gladiator' to 'The Simpsons': Composer Hans Zimmer". CNN interview, www.cnn.com. August 27, 2007.

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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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  Coffee, Writing, Light

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a house full of music, and a house that didn't have a television. We had a piano, but no television. And really, I very quickly realized that this was, you know, there was magic there, there was magic to be had, you could lose yourself in it, it was a refuge, it was joy, it was all of those things.

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  Piano, Joy, House

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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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  Guitar, Littles, Noise

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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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  Technology, Age, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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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  Morning, Ideas, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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