Rick Rubin Quotes

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.

I feel like when I get the demos - I get a lot of demos - but when I get the right demo, I get very inspired. I produce around it, and it often goes very fast.

I think the sound that I have had on all the records that I've been a part of have been important and special.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.

I love the magic of the studio.

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.