Rick Rubin Quotes
I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That's one of the things that has changed in hip-hop that's made me like it less. It feels much more like it's a producer-driven medium, where there are all these tracks that are completely interchangeable.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.
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I just feel so lucky that I'm able to do things that are enriching for me.
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I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
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I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'
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I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.
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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned.
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"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that.
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Well people love to go dirty and stuff like that. It's funny, because even really dirty things can kind of inspire, but all things inspire really dirty improv and monologues. So then really dirty things can inspire the exact opposite. It's kind of a crapshoot.
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Even things that are true can be proved.
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Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
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If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
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Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.
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I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That's one of the things that has changed in hip-hop that's made me like it less. It feels much more like it's a producer-driven medium, where there are all these tracks that are completely interchangeable.
