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Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller

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Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller

hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea Sometimes I turn, there’s someone there, at times it’s only me. —Bob Dylan, “Every Grain of Sand”

Bono • Surrender

“When we’re writing for her, we sit down and talk to her and find out what’s going on in her life, and try to find out the kernel of truth. I want her to sing about something she cares about, so we talk about her life and what she’s going through, and try to weave it into something powerful and visual.”

John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit

Rick Rubin

Jeremy and • 9 cards

I think of a song as something you build. It’s not something that you do, it’s not something that comes out of your gut. It’s like you have bricks, you have mortar, you have a trowel – You don’t have a building plan yet, you just have all the raw materials and you just start building it and you hope to god you get something good.

magnoliaelectricco • Faster Times interview

When Brian Wilson first heard the Beatles’ Rubber Soul, his mind was blown. “If I ever do anything in my life, I’m going to make that good an album,” he thought at the time. He went on to explain, “I was so happy to hear it that I went and started writing ‘God Only Knows.’ ”

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Will Oldham on Steve Albini: ‘He elevated the quality of the human experience’

Will Oldham theguardian.com

To live as an artist is a way of being in the world.