Aaron Zigman

When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and…

— Aaron Zigman

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

— Aaron Zigman

When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation.…

— Aaron Zigman

There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for…

— Aaron Zigman

You try and nurture the relationship. This day and age we have to do a little more networking than we used to…

— Aaron Zigman

You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin.

— Aaron Zigman

When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to…

— Aaron Zigman

Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working…

— Aaron Zigman

Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you…

— Aaron Zigman

Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to…

— Aaron Zigman

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the…

— Aaron Zigman

Sometimes I just listen to classical pieces of music to take me away from my work. That's what I kind of do…

— Aaron Zigman

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to…

— Aaron Zigman