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

Government, Mind, Around

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.
Trevor Rabin

Love, Time, Happy

All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.
Trevor Rabin

Along, Worked, Directors

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.
Trevor Rabin

Music, Business, Evil

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.
Trevor Rabin

Love, True, Spirit

I really love writing themes and melody.
Trevor Rabin

Love, Writing, Melody

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.
Trevor Rabin

Amazing, Emotional, Enemy

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.
Trevor Rabin

Live, Action, Film

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.
Trevor Rabin

Guitar, Since, Instrument

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.
Trevor Rabin

Time, Nothing, Writing

It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.
Trevor Rabin

Positive, Important, Director

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.
Trevor Rabin

Try, Movie, Left

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.
Trevor Rabin

Guitar, Playing, Color

Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.
Trevor Rabin

Everybody, Movie

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.
Trevor Rabin

Good, Down, Thought

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.
Trevor Rabin

Simple, Writing, Enjoy

Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.
Trevor Rabin

Music, Movies, Perfect

Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen.
Trevor Rabin

Movies, Done, Him

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.
Trevor Rabin

Movies, Dark, Wanted

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Born: January 13, 1955

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