Hans Zimmer Quotes

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.

There's a lot of electronic surround-sound music, and I've done a lot of work where I write music for other people to move around a space.

I think it goes back to me being a recording mixer and engineer. Because of all the technology now you can make music yourself and a lot of people are doing that now. I started out doing that a long time ago and I found when I did that I came up with a unique sound.

'A&E' is one of my favourite songs we've made in terms of the production.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

There's a difference between a beatmaker and a producer.

Our album stuff, we bring it to our producer to help us finesse. But anything that's been on YouTube and a lot of the stuff that's been on the album, too, it started from us just sitting around in a circle and jamming it and finding where the parts fit.