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
It’s an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one. – 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. – Trevor Rabin
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
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
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
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
You can’t judge an album by a single song; it’s like judging a book by only reading a single chapter. – Trevor Rabin
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
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
Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it. – Trevor Rabin
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
In my day, when I was a young kid, army duty was compulsory in South Africa or you go to jail. I had the choice, so I spent a year in the entertainment unit, and outside of doing shows – and I used to write for, arrange for the big band – outside of doing that, I actually had a rock band in the army. – Trevor Rabin
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
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
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
I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA. – Trevor Rabin
I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point. – Trevor Rabin
The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own completely different life, but there’s never been a formula. Each time, it’s a new thing. – Trevor Rabin
I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a pretty good technique on the guitar and allowed me to find different ways to do things. – Trevor Rabin
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
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
