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 one spot …

- Aaron Zigman

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

- 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. Once …

- Aaron Zigman

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

- 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 break the ru…

- Aaron Zigman

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

- Aaron Zigman

When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of re…

- Aaron Zigman

I have a huge record and cd collection of all kinds of great classical, jazz and all music but I find the internet very accessible and quick.

- Aaron Zigman

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…

- Aaron Zigman