Trevor Rabin quotes

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government! (Trevor Rabin)
I really love writing themes and melody. View quote
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I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument. View quote
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You can't judge an album by a single song; it's like judging a book by only reading a single chapter. View quote
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All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well. View quote
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Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19. View quote
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While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time. View quote
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You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again. View quote
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Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it. View quote
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One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left. View quote
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When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little. (Trevor Rabin)
I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him. View quote
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I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it. View quote
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When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that. View quote
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Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately. View quote
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Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business. View quote
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It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one. View quote
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I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another. View quote
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I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true. View quote
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Trevor Rabin

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Photo: Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: South African Musician
Born: January 13, 1954
Quotes count: 19