Rick Rubin Quotes
Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset.
Quotes to Explore
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.
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My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.
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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
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We practically own everything in the Philippines.
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I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.
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A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
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One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.
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I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.
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I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.
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All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
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Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
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I tend to fight for something that I believe in.
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My brain knows best-before dates are a con; my panicky gut treats them like a nuclear countdown.
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Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
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Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset.
