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I really love writing themes and melody.
Trevor Rabin / Musician
Melody
Theme
Writing
Themes
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Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.
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I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.
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Guitar
Instruments
Instrument
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All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.
Trevor Rabin / Musician
Directors
Wells
Gotten
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It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.
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Relationship
Directors
Important
Important Things
Important Thing
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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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Melody
Simple
Want
Writing
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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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Judging
Chapter
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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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Color
Guitar
Use
Lately
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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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Careful
Inspiration
Trying
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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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Headphones
Lights
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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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Government
Couple
Growing Up
Not Talking
Snakes
South Africa
Africa
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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.
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Everyday
Jackson
Samuel
Screen
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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.
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Dark
Might
Over It
Over You
Periods
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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.
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True Love
Band
Being In Love
Love Is
Suggest
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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.
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Classical Music
Classical
Loved Playing
Merge
Natural Thing
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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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Demographics
Applied
Classified
Contrive
Implies
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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.
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Explore
Spot
Orchestral
Seemed
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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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Ambition
Wind
Sails
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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.
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Quirky
Reason Why
Trying
Two
Love Time Done
Atmospheric
Love Time Happy
Melodic
Quite A Lot
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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 / Musician
Different Ways
Technique
Led
Lesson
Pretty Good
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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.
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Fifty
Ideas
No Idea
Song
Talking
Good Song Feel
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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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Left Field
Lonely
Profit
Record Companies
Rejected
Executive
Grounds
Owner
Satisfy
Statement
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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.
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Composing
Different Life
Score
Life Time Personality
Each Time
New Thing
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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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Me Day Doing
Tour
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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.
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Dna
Johannesburg
Orchestra
Painter
Symphony
Family Teacher Dad
Chair
Creative Environment
Symphony Orchestra
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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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Hiroshima
Thousand
Assistant
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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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Elephants
People
Too Much
Action Film
Live People Will
Disney
How Much
Live Action
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Jerry Bruckheimer is the most hands-on producer that I've worked with. Jerry's very involved in the music, and he's such a fan of film. When you watch him playing back the cues to the picture, he's like a kid in a candy store.
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Candy
Candy Store
Hands-On
Producer
Store
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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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Emotional
Enemy
Enjoyed
Musical
Express
Scott
Thoroughly
Tony
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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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Brutal
Point Of View
African
Approve
Explain
Occasionally
Policies
Racial
Right Away
South African
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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.
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Done
Finishing
Writing
Begin
Time Done Nothing
Project
Overlap
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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.
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Deals
Evil
Jerry
Mean
Music Business
Nuts
Business Music Me
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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 doing that, I actually had a rock band in the army.
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Army
Compulsory
Entertainment
Jail
South Africa
Big Band
Rock Band
Unit
Young Kid
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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 part of the election of the first black American president.
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Active
American President
Election
South Africa
Chills
Partner
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I belong in America more than South Africa. I can't remember the feeling of living there anymore. It's like it was in another life. That's sad in a way. It is my country. It's where I grew up. You don't know what it's like to have these negative feelings about your homeland. There are roots you can't escape.
Trevor Rabin / Musician
Homeland
Roots
South Africa
Life Sad Your
Belong
Escape
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I'm happy to say that I have not been fired off a film. The score is usually the last thing to be done. So a lot lands on the scores shoulders. A lot of problems that seem to have nothing to do with the music gets blamed on the music , because it's relatively cheap to change, where as a reshoot etc is not. Music is often expected to help or fix bad cuts, bad acting, bad filming, bad timing, you name it.
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Cutting
Land
Names
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