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

- Hans Zimmer

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

- Hans Zimmer

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

- Hans Zimmer

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

- Hans Zimmer

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

- Hans Zimmer

Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself.

- Hans Zimmer

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

- Hans Zimmer

The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I'm like some Monk. I don't see a lot of daylight. I hang out with…

- Hans Zimmer

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

- Hans Zimmer