Oh, but how's the radio gonna react?" Forgetting all of the external baggage that weighs down the artistic process. ![]() Without worrying about, "Oh, but there's a release date. When you present a piece of work to me, I can reflect back what's going on in me. I'm in tune with myself and I'm in tune with my taste and I can express it clearly. Rick Rubin: I don't think of myself as a musician. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Instead, he spent eight years writing what is basically a spiritual text for anyone who wants to make something meaningful - not for praise or admiration or money, just because it brings you closer to who you really are. Rubin could have written a bestselling book about the music industry and insider stories about huge music stars. Now musicians from all genres show up at his studios in California hoping for a dose of the Rubin magic to take their art to the next level. His talent as someone who could hear things in music others couldn't eventually spread way beyond hip hop. Who better to have a conversation about this than Rubin? He helped make hip hop what it is today by launching the careers of greats like LL Cool J, Run DMC, Public Enemy and The Beastie Boys. But after a while, the urgency fades and the art-making takes a back seat to the responsibilities and rhythms of my regular life.īut as I think about the next chapter of my life, I want to figure out a way to be more intentional about how I harness those creative bursts so they become less like flashes of inspiration and more like a steady light that may intensify or dim but never goes out. Sometimes I need to take a ceramics class or learn a song on the guitar or the piano. I go through phases where I need to make stuff. And it made me think in a new way about the role creativity plays in my own life. So when I read Rick Rubin's book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, I saw her in those pages. ![]() I'd go even further to say it was an integral part of her spiritual life. ![]() I did not inherit any of her artistic talent but she modeled for me what a creative life looked like - the kind of joy and solace it could bring a person. She wasn't a big name or anything and probably only sold a couple pieces ever but that wasn't the point. She even carved the female form out of giant pieces of styrofoam. She welded big structures together and found beauty in barbed wire.
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