Hans Zimmer

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

— Hans Zimmer

The challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go,…

— Hans Zimmer

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this…

— Hans Zimmer

The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I'm like some Monk. I…

— Hans Zimmer

I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream,…

— Hans Zimmer

I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love…

— Hans Zimmer

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

— Hans Zimmer

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

— Hans Zimmer

I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over…

— Hans Zimmer

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

— Hans Zimmer

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are…

— Hans Zimmer

Having the great opportunity on a daily basis to sit in front of a blank page is terrifying, and at the same…

— Hans Zimmer

Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further…

— Hans Zimmer

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come…

— Hans Zimmer

I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell…

— Hans Zimmer

Information is floating around really fast. I write something, or a piece of my music comes out and I see people writing…

— Hans Zimmer

A violin is nothing more than a piece of wood and a dead cat. But it's a piece of technology. So when…

— Hans Zimmer

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be…

— Hans Zimmer

The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.

— Hans Zimmer

With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're…

— Hans Zimmer

The honest truth is that it was just traumatizing with the piano, with the authority of the piano teacher, getting rapped across…

— Hans Zimmer

I try to communicate with the musicians the way I communicate with the filmmakers. I'm not going to say to them, can…

— Hans Zimmer

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

— Hans Zimmer

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as…

— Hans Zimmer

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler..

— Hans Zimmer