88 Quotes by 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 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.

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.

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.

If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That’s the only thing to move things forward.

If somebody tells you there’s a rule, break it.

When all you’ve got is nothing, there’s a lot to go around.

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.