Podcast: People I (Mostly) Admire
Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Creative Act
Buy on Amazon"His new book is entitled The Creative Act: A Way of Being, and it's not at all the book you might expect from someone in the music industry. It's a book about..."
Creative Act
Buy on Amazon"But before we get into the book, I'm hoping he'll explain to me how a white college student in the early 1980s became foundational to the development of hip-hop."
Creative Act
Buy on Amazon"I have to confess I know very little about the music industry, and it never would have occurred to me to invite you on the show, but as we were brainstorming potential guests, someone in the meeting noted that Rick Rubin's got a new book out, and he's legendary."
Creative Act
Buy on Amazon"I picked up a copy of your book knowing literally nothing about it, and I was honestly shocked."
Creative Act
Buy on Amazon"This book isn't a memoir or an expose; it's a book of philosophy, a meditation, and it spoke deeply to me from the very first pages."
Creative Act
Buy on Amazon"I gotta say, I rarely have been so surprised by a book in such a positive way."
Creative Act
Buy on Amazon"The big part of what the book's about is that the artist's work is to live in the world in a way where you notice the things that no one else notices."
Creative Act
Buy on Amazon"But somewhere towards the end of your book, I broke out in this big smile, and I thought, 'Maybe I am an artist.'"
Creative Act
Buy on Amazon"You have an interesting point in the book about being like a spectator to your own failures."
Creative Act
Buy on Amazon"But if there's one big message, one that I would love for you to carry away, it's something early in the book."