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Aaron Zigman Quotes:

Aaron Zigman quotes

Life: b. January 6, 1963

Birthday: January 6

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

Topics: Skins, Thick Skin, Thick

quote film writing and concert writing are two very different things in film writing i am aaron zigman Quotes

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 within the parameters of the film. In writing concert music for the stage I can write anything I want and in this day and modern age rules can be broken.

Topics: Writing, Two, Broken, Modern Age, Parameters

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 rules.

Topics: Break, Century, Rachmaninoff, 17th Century, Stravinsky

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.

Topics: Cds, Records, Jazz

You try and nurture the relationship. This day and age we have to do a little more networking than we used to do. All that does is make sure you befriend the people you are working with on a project so you hopefully carry it over to the next one.

Topics: People, Age, Trying, The Next One

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 pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."

Topics: Writing, Thinking, Light, Musical Composition, Pianist

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 away the notes that I've been working on all day. As human beings we need to sleep so that's kind of one of my little tricks.

Topics: Sleep, Needs, Pieces, Take Me Away

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 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.

Topics: Brain, Trying, Sometimes

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 for a big or medium film.

Topics: Numbers, Tennis, Competition

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

Topics: Tennis, Rejection, Competition

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 had to become better within myself.

Topics: Winning, Play, Tennis

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 refuge and solace.

Topics: Hurt, Piano, Tennis

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.

Topics: Player, Years, Tennis

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