The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have a playfulness about it. As the world shifts, it's starting to understand more and more that to have a playfulness about any and everything is actually the way of having a better life, or being more creative, or being more productive.
Interpretation
Music and creativity thrive on playfulness, which enhances life and productivity.
Hans Zimmer emphasizes the importance of playfulness in music, suggesting that this quality is essential not only for creativity in art but also for leading a fulfilling life. He believes that as society evolves, it increasingly recognizes that embracing a light-hearted approach can significantly improve creativity and productivity.
In practice
In a motivational speech about creativity, one might say, 'As Hans Zimmer reminds us, remember to play in your pursuits, for that's where joy and creativity lie.'
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.
Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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
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.
I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.
The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.
What provides you with subject matter is your own language - and that's all.
When I was in high school, I felt totally alienated from the world, but I loved movies. They were my escape, but coming from a disadvantaged community, I never knew that filmmaking was an option for me. A program like School of Doc would have been a game-changer.
My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
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