Rick Rubin Quotes

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

Rick Rubin

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• I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Writing
  • Composer
  • Satisfying

• I'd love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Kind
  • Danger
  • Rainbow

• If you go for the money first and try to think of what other people want to see, you change your original inspiration and perhaps put out something that's less original and less personal and maybe less satisfying.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Money
  • Inspiration
  • Satisfying

• Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Mind
  • Moving
  • Chief

• I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Time
  • Cutting
  • Grass

• There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Long
  • Satisfying

• There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Disappointment
  • Despair
  • Satisfaction

• Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Imagine
  • Satisfying
  • Wow

• The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Comfort
  • Element
  • Compulsion

• Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Element

• It's like 'What's an atom? What's an element?' ... Teachers feel like we need to hit the basics before we move on to something like the periodic table.

  

  Charles Edwards
  • Element
  • Basics
  • Periodic

• Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Teaching
  • Satisfying
  • Exhausting

• What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Humanity
  • Desires
  • Satisfying

• A lot of these songs were written for our first album. One of them, Shuffle Your Feet, was from before we were a band even. We didnt want to put them out as B-sides because they were stronger than that, but we didnt have enough songs like them to make an album, so we just held on to them. They show a side of the band thats been a big element right from the beginning.

  

  Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  • Band
  • Songs
  • Side

• The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Change
  • Element

• Time itself is an element.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Time
  • Element

• Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Software
  • Machine
  • Element

• Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

  

  Stephen Dobyns
  • Comic
  • Poems
  • Element

• History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.

  

  Han Suyin
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • World
  • Long
  • Money

• If you dont see me on tour, its because I have found happiness away from winning, and that might be the biggest achievement I could ever accomplish.

  

  Andy Irons
  • Winning
  • Happiness
  • Achievement

• I meet a lot of young people that want to go into acting because they think of what it will do for them. If that's the case, it can be a very, very painful profession. But if the kids want to do acting because they love it, and they want to give to it, then they can have a great life. It's really about as simple as how you look at it.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Kids
  • Acting
  • Profession

• There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

  

  Rick Rubin
  • Element
  • Satisfying
  • Immediately