Quotes by Trevor Rabin

About Trevor Rabin:

Trevor Charles Rabin is a South African-born musician, singer-songwriter, producer, and film score composer. Born in Johannesburg, Rabin was born into a family of musicians. After taking up the piano and guitar, Rabin became a session musician for a variety of artists before forming his first major rock band Rabbitt who enjoyed considerable success in South Africa. In 1978, Rabin moved to London, working as a solo artist and a producer for various artists. He moved to Los Angeles in 1981.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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 ...

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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.

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I was in Hiroshima with my assistant, and I said to him, 'You know, I've done close to a thousand shows with Yes. I think I'm done. I don't think I can do another one.' I went back to L.A. and left the band and got into film.

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I hate how things must be classified. How this is applied to musicians implies that they somehow contrive their products and have studied the demographics of the audience.

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When you listen to a Yes album, you should listen to the whole thing through headphones with the lights off.

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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.

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You're a white South African, and right away you have to explain yourself. Occasionally, I get hassled until I explain my point of view. I have to make it clear that I don't live there anymore, and I don't approve of the brutal racial policies.

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The reason I stopped doing the band is that I wanted to do something different... Yes had become like 'Groundhog Day' for me. I loved being in the band, but it was album-tour, album-tour, different album-different tour.

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Several record companies had rejected my song 'Owner of A Lonely Heart' on the grounds it was 'too left field.' I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive's quarterly profit statement.

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We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so I grew up very aware of the struggle going on. Coming from that background, it really gave me chills to have my music be a pa...

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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 ...

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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!

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Author Bio

  • NameTrevor Rabin
  • DescriptionSouth African musician
  • AliasesTrevor Charles Rabin
  • BornJanuary 13, 1954
  • CountrySouth Africa
  • ProfessionMusician; Composer