Latest Hans Zimmer Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Writing, People, Floating

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Jobs, Opportunity, Get Better

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Ideas, People, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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."

  Hans Zimmer

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Bored, Challenges, Way

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Moving, Way, Culture

  Source: collider.com

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

  Hans Zimmer

  Nice, Book, Reading

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• The main thing the composer needs to do is it needs to remember that the director is there to cheer you on. The director wants you to succeed because if you succeed, you'll be helping the film. And they are truly your conscience. And they're truly your guide.

  Hans Zimmer

  Cheer, Needs, Want

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

  Hans Zimmer

  Play, Looks, Pieces

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself.

  Hans Zimmer

  Hollywood, Express Yourself

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Mean, Drawers, Lack Of Education

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Stones, England, Yeah

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Trying, Littles, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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

  Hans Zimmer

  Thinking, Culture, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Thinking, Class, Musician

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell you what orchestra it was, I can usually tell you what hall it was in. I can tell you, obviously who the conductor was, and who the composer was.

  Hans Zimmer

  Thinking, Nerd, Pieces

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Guitar, Littles, Noise

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Teacher, Piano, Knuckles

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Cat, Technology, Interesting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Jobs, Real, School

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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

  Hans Zimmer

  Technology, Age, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Morning, Ideas, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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.

  Hans Zimmer

  Piano, Joy, House

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com