I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music. — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection. — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
You try and nurture the relationship. This day and age we have to do a little more networking than we used to do. All… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just listen to classical pieces of music to take me away from my work. That's what I kind of do to wash… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
