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Hans Zimmer Biography

Hans Florian Zimmer (German: [ˈhans ˈfloːʁi̯aːn ˈtsɪmɐ] ( listen); born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and record producer. Since the 1980s, he has composed music for over 150 films. His works include The Lion King, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1995, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Thin Red Line, Gladiator, The Last Samurai, and The Dark Knight Trilogy.

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

Fun, Playful, Rid, Rules

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

Life'S Too Short, Shitty, Short, Sound, Too Short

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

Film, Film Music, Lends, Movement, Way, Whole

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 much time I have left, and how far behind I am. I look at it and panic, and decide which scene to work on. And you sit there plonking notes until something makes sense, and you don't think about it any more. Good tunes come when you're not thinking about it.

Calendar, Look, Plonking, Thinking, Wall, Writing

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

Defense Mechanisms, Saving, World

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.

Bold, Guitar, Littles, Make, Noise, Work

Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself.

Allows, Express, Express Yourself, Hollywood

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.

Good, Ideas, Like, Morning, People, Sort

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 have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

Adventure, Away, Moments, Morning, Music, Needs

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

Complicated, Heart, Make, Reach, Simpler, Trying

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. "

Bored, Challenges, Way, See, Throw

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.

Class, Music, Musician, Things, Thinking

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.

Job, Jobs, Life, Music, Real, School

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.

Announces, Feelings, Music, Tell, Want, Writing

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.

Teacher, Piano, Pieces, Reaction, Authority

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.

Anymore, Jobs, Morning, Write, Writing

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 of tunes, and they were really pretty -but totally meaningless. So in the end I came up with material I liked. We worked on The Lion King for four years, but I wasn't toying until the last three-and-a-half weeks properly. On Crimson Tide, on the other hand, I just went in and within seconds I knew what I wanted.

Hours, Keyboards, Kings, Music, Totally, Years

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.

Drawers, Intensely, Lack, Lack Of Education, Mean, Movie

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

Credit, Firsts, Giorgio, Giving, Make

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

Arise, Arises, Inspired, Movie, Script, Scripts

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