Rick Rubin Quotes

“Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've…' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.”

“I'm just trying to make my favorite music. That's how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel to me. I want to be touched by the music I'm making. Luckily, other people have shared that response to my work over the years.”

“The purpose of the work is to awaken something in you first and then allow something to be awakened in others and it's fine if they're not the same thing.”

“The making of art is not a competitive act. Our work is representative of the self.”

“By accepting self-doubt rather than trying to eliminate or repress it we lessen its energy and interference.”

“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

“I like things that are unique and extreme.”

“I guess edgy things tend to get my attention.”

“Living life as an artist is a practice. You can engage in the practice or not.”

“There's great wisdom in transitional realms between wakefulness and sleep.”

“I've gotten to work with amazing people.”

“The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity.”