Aaron Zigman Quotes

#1. The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection. - Author: Aaron Zigman

#2. 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. - Author: Aaron Zigman

#3. 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. - Author: Aaron Zigman

#4. 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. - Author: Aaron Zigman

#5. 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. - Author: Aaron Zigman

#6. He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth ... - Author: Charlaine Harris

#7. 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. - Author: Aaron Zigman

#8. Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others. - Author: David A. Bednar

#9. 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. - Author: Aaron Zigman

#10. 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. - Author: Aaron Zigman

#11. I wanna roll it, roll it, roll it, roll it. Is all I wanna do, for you baby. Girl, it's something kind of sexy. Goin' on about you babe. - Author: R. Kelly

#12. 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. - Author: Aaron Zigman

#13. I urge all young people to go for their dreams. If they do, many of the world's problems will be solved. - Author: Michael Jackson

#14. The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness. - Author: Edward Robb Ellis

#15. 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. - Author: Aaron Zigman

#16. You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin. - Author: Aaron Zigman

#17. People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them. - Author: Logan Pearsall Smith

#18. It takes more than genius to keep me reading a book. - Author: E.B. White

#19. Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don't get mad, get everything. - Author: Ivana Trump

#20. It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership. - Author: R. Buckminster Fuller

#21. People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people. - Author: Garrison Keillor