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

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

Classical Collection Internet Jazz Music Record
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

Accomplish Fifteen Fourteen Player Tennis Year
You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin.
AARON ZIGMAN

Cannot Living Skin Thick Skin
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.
AARON ZIGMAN

Emotionally Hurt Lost Piano Tennis
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.
AARON ZIGMAN

Brain Eighteen Especially Hard Stop Try Trying Working
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.
AARON ZIGMAN

Back Competition Composer Film Medium Number Tenni Twenty Usually
The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.
AARON ZIGMAN

Competition Learned Playing Rejection Tennis
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.
AARON ZIGMAN

Allow Break Century Composer
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.
AARON ZIGMAN

Competing Else Play Playing Tennis Win Winning

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