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  • Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself.

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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'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

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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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  • As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.

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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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  • 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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  • As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

  • Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.

  • 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.

  • You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.

    Twitter post from Jul 23, 2012
  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

    Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. June 11, 2013.
  • 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.

    "Hollywood music makers set to score big at Oscars" by Dennis Michael, www.cnn.com. March 11, 1999.
  • If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

  • 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.

    "Interstellar Composer Hans Zimmer On Music and His Own Process For Scoring Films". Quora Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2014.
  • Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

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

  • The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal.

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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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  • Information is floating around really fast. I write something, or a piece of my music comes out and I see people writing about it on the Internet as if I'm having a conversation with them. We've never met, but somehow, my music is communicating something to them. Very often, it really makes them feel something.

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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 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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  • America is a magical place, and I think my job, or the job of a lot of us European filmmakers is to just hold up America to Americans and present it to you in a new way. All I wanted to do is in a funny way say, "Look at your country. It's magnificent."

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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.

    Source: collider.com
  • The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.

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  • I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love it when the music, when the cultures collide and something sort of new comes out of it.

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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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    "From 'Gladiator' to 'The Simpsons': Composer Hans Zimmer". CNN interview, www.cnn.com. August 27, 2007.
  • I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

  • 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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    Hans Zimmer

    • Born: September 12, 1957
    • Occupation: Film composer