Composer and double Oscar winner Hans Zimmer has said playing piano makes him feel like a failure.
The German music producer told the BBC: “I’m not a great player, I’m a composer” ahead of the cinema release of Hans Zimmer And Friends: Diamond In The Desert, which will play his live shows on the big screen.
In an interview broadcast on the Today programme, Zimmer said he had two weeks of piano lessons as a child and “it actually wasn’t piano lessons, it was somewhat nuclear war between him and me.”
This was “because he wanted me to play other people’s music, and I, as a six-year-old, was firmly under the impression that this whole game was about”…