Hans Zimmer Quotes

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• As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.
• 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…
• The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.
• I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth…
• 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…
• I don't drive, so one of my assistants drives me to my writing room, and I have a calendar on the wall telling me how…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?
• What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.
• I've spent my life trying to make things simpler..
• You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.
• 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…
• You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.
• Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

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