Rick Rubin Quotes

Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.

I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

If you listen to our work, from 'Led Zeppelin I' to 'Coda,' it's just a fantastic textbook.

In my elementary days, I took a liking to rock & roll music. I dabbed into Marilyn Manson, which became my favorite.

As a kid I was super into all kinds of pop. It wasn't until I became a teenager that I moved more into alternative music and punk rock.

I was enamored with music at a very young age. Everything started with kundiman, then evolved to Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, and eventually classic rock music.

I think it'd be weird for us to do hard rock.

I did alternative rock before. That's why my style is the way it is now.

My mum and dad used to listen to a lot of R&B and soul, so this was the way I grew up. Hip-hop, of course. But then as I grew older, I started listening to everything.

I get my inspiration from a lot of bands actually. I really like AC/DC, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin and new bands. I like The Pretty Reckless.

I listen to rap, reggae, Nirvana and Guns N' Roses.

I love heavy metal, Metallica. I'm into Jefferson Starship and acid rock.

A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.