Hans Zimmer Quotes

I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.

I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.

I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

I listen to kids play a lot.

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

I can't imagine a world without music.

When we go out there, we have fun, but we get to work, and I think we're at our best when we're having fun. Having fun is key.

I have a song called 'Waffles Are Better Than Pancakes.' If I can't be goofy, I'll go insane.

A sense of play is important when I'm writing, and so messing around with, say, a magic routine can feel like play, at least initially.

I love to create and play, I can't stop, hahaha!

We don't take ourselves seriously; we make the records for fun.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.

Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. We're helping ourselves stay in touch with that spirit, too. It's the things we play withand the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

I want to get better. That's the only way to progress. So I'm just young having fun making music.

I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.

I wanted to create a more spontaneous outlet for my songwriting to have alongside the more long-winded process of making an album. I wanted to have some fun.