Trevor Rabin Quotes

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard; it doesn't get easier, but that's why I love it: because it's a challenge every time. I also feel like I'm learning new ways.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

Composing music is hard work.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I still remember how hard I worked on the tune of 'Raree rareeram... ;' the first tune I tried was rejected.

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

Keith Richards has some sort of quote that says 'it takes two people to write a song,' and I'm of that school of thought, too.

Writing a song is work. You have to go deep in order to mine the material and dig it out.

I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.