Rick Rubin Quotes
I've always been an outsider. When I did magic, I was the only kid. When I worked with Johnny Cash, I was completely out of place in Nashville. And when I started Def Jam, I was the only white guy in the hip-hop world.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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Hip-hop was started on groups.
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Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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For cubic U I didn't know how it all got started at all.
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My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.
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What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, or they've worked with me, or they know me, or we've met. So there's a lot of backstuff on the 'Vicki!' show.
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I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
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I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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I started writing songs at age 15.
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When I moved to Nashville, I didn't really let myself sonically explore, but things naturally got a little more poppy. And in L.A., even more so.
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The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers;
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When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses.
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I have this theory that there are two kinds of people in the world, people who stop at a traffic accident and those that just drive by. If I see a traffic accident, I am going to stop. I do notice. I don't think that makes me a good or bad person, or anybody else better or worse.
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What he Michael Jackson did was he allowed us, through his voice and his instrument, to see a glimpse of the heaven that he himself was denied. That sacrifice was the ultimate source of redemption that he gave to us.
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Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.
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Beethoven was always too much. He's not slightly anything - he's very everything.
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I've always been an outsider. When I did magic, I was the only kid. When I worked with Johnny Cash, I was completely out of place in Nashville. And when I started Def Jam, I was the only white guy in the hip-hop world.
