88 Quotes by Hans Zimmer

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

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

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

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?

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.

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 much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

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