As an artist, musician and video animator for the last twenty years, Rubin is saying almost everything I have thought about being an artist all in one video. So many great points here.
@@insertmyidentityhere He sits with the artists and guides them in the direction the want to go and provides his knoledge of music and a calming presence which has proved sucessful as many bands have produced their best work under him. He is also just a great mentor for musicians.
“It’s the people that you first see and might not like, that you come to like. Because you don’t understand them at first. Those are the ones that change the world.”
I love what he said about collaboration. It’s not about getting “your idea” into the thing you’re working on, it’s about working together to build the best thing.
Gotta be willing to leave your ego out of certain situations. It's a beautiful thing when a talented person humbles them selves for the greatness of the bigger creative process 🙏
theoretical it's just like it...but when it comes to actual work...that's when things start to happen and theory fails eventualy....but that's just my experience.
When he mentions , “when you hear the unexpected you laugh” there’s been a couple times recently writing a verse in my flow state, recorded it , and listened to it. I’ll just laugh after I hear it, for it’s impressive to me , that I even made that verse. Such a remarkable feeling of joy , sometimes I even tear up. Music such a beautiful conduit .
I like to call it “hype” . When I write some clever stuff off flowing from getting inspiration from my previous lyrics I get so hype I laugh and it does bring joy
Such a simple idea but when he said "we're not smart enough to know what people like" that really resonated with me. It's so true and half the time people don't even know what they themselves like. A lot of incredible things stop in their tracks when a creator gets in their head thinking about what's gonna be received well or not.
It's great when friends and family like my music, but I don't make it for them, and I certainly don't consider what strangers think. I think the problem is that a lot of people don't want to be a good artist, they want to be a famous artist, and that's a stress I don't wish on anyone because nothing harms art AND the artist more than caring what other people might think.
Rick fully understands the inner power artists and everyone has if we simply get out of our own way and trust it. It’s always there no matter how many times you fall, or let’s drugs win or allow someone elses limitations affect you it’s still there ❤ it never leaves us.
At the end of the video, Rick Rubin talks about being open and observant to forces of the universe guiding you toward an idea. As an artist, I have found that this is indeed the case. It is a real phenomenon. Once you open yourself up to the gentle nudging the universe has to offer, you will never be searching for new ideas, new ideas will be presenting themselves on a constant and continual basis when you are in the open and observing mindset.
By the way... also true. If you get a really good idea and don't act on it, in time someone else will get the same idea and they will act on it. It's happened to me... just sayin'....
@@DilminPerera I think the best way is to go someplace where you've never been before, like a part of the city you live in or a town you've never been to, and you just walk around without any plan and see what draws your attention. When something draws you just go toward it, explore it and try to figure out why it has a pull on your attention. Try doing this with a clear mind and no itinerary. Engage in conversation with strangers you meet along the way. Open yourself up to the infinite possibilities and trust that the universe will show you things you need to see. That's how you start.
Also do something that you always thought you should do or wanted to do in the back of your mind but have never done. This could be going to an art show opening or a lecture or jumping in your car for a weekend road trip with no plan or map. You're sure to discover something that will be meaningful for a long time to come. I think this whole process of connecting with the universe involves moving out of your comfort zone and just getting out and exploring. I live in Michigan and once took a road trip to the east coast with no real plan, no hotel reservations, just a book of "off the beaten path" attractions and that was one of the greatest vacations of my life.
@@DK-jg5vk I got to have such a road trip 3 years ago, it was a 20 day pilrimage to the west coast and back and it was by far one of the coolest things I've ever done in my life. My first 3 or 4 days were really uncomfortable and infuriating, but once i removed all my expectations of the trip, and took everything as it came, thats when i truly started to have the time of my life. And its really true what you say about getting out and moving to find things that are meaningful, thats the easiest way to do it.
"It's the people who you first see and you might not like that you come to like because you don't understand them first. Those are the one who change the world."
Props. How many times I've met folks and straight up had unnecessary hate towards them, yet when I sat with them and made myself engage in connecting with them, we began to grow a fruitful and collaborative relationship and they are some of my fav peeps. Awareness is key. Be your expressive self!
I had one of those mornings where I just shot up awake while it was still dark out. I went through my morning routine ablaze with energy and passion and then I saw this video and thought, I should take a second here. Glad I did.
Yup I’ve lacked work ethic for so long, and he’s absolutely correct. Talent without work ethic will not go anywhere. Unless discovered by someone who offers a really great opportunity, but usually that’s noticed for someone who actually has work ethic.
This is my first time doing this man but I can say he is definitely awakened😂 he’s explaining how vibration and alignment works right in front of everyone. Literally keys to success if you take advantage of it
He’s been meditating since he was maybe 13-14. Funny thing is, he went to the doctor’s about neck pain and they told him to try meditation. Now look at him. Amazing man.
When asked about creativity.. I say "creativity comes from inside.. it just comes" due to lack of words to explain.. but here how profoundly Rubin explained/discussed about almost all of the things and the magic that happens in a creative process..🔥💯
He's speaking so much truth in this. I especially relate to the "ever had an idea and 6 months later..." I've had that a bunch and all that has taught me is to act upon those ideas. I had an idea for a music video once and a year or so later, Dax did literally did it. I believe all ideas are out there and we can tune into the frequency and catch those ideas. If you don't, someone else will. No good idea will stay private for long.
The segment about hearing an idea from a stranger talking in a coffee shop is very interesting to me. I believe creative people naturally gravitate towards experiencing the world with a lens that could enable them to hear a strangers conversation and generate an idea from it, while other people might let it drown in the noise. Its about paying attention to the world around you
What he said about putting in the work. He's so right. I feel the reason sometimes I fell short is because of the work.. Sometimes I believe I put in the work. But, it didn't happen where I connected with everyone yet. I remember doing a song that I wrote in ten minutes. But, you knw what a momentary thing is sometimes a justififcation of what happens when you put in the work. Sometimes its overwhelming when you see what materializes when you put in the work.
I don’t think I’d ever give someone the advice of following their passion without also warning them of the real possibility that no one in the whole wide world will ever share, or have any interest at all, in that passion with them. He touches upon that possibility a couple of times, pointing out how sometimes it (what you create from you passion) doesn’t connect. Or maybe it’s not in the cards for that person to have that success. True. And when it comes to work ethic, it’s not about doing the work to create something. What matters is how much effort you put into self promotion and networking to gain whatever attention is required for your creative contribution to not die in solitude. Especially if what you have created is something that lies outside the bounds of being easily relatable. If the passion you follow is to create things that are easily understood and relatable, you will not have to work hard to get the recognition that allows you to share what you’ve done. If what you have created is not easily understood, or perhaps is even offensive to normality, tradition and relatability, you will need to work much harder to generate any interest. So sure, follow your passion. But don’t be surprised or disappointed if no one ever gives a shit about you and what you’ve created.
In the last sentence you make it seem like following your passion is a horrible thing to do?? The only attention that your art needs is your own, no one should need to depend on outside acceptance for what they made, as long as one can please themselves through their art then that's all that matters
@@loganm15 Yes, external validation *shouldn’t* matter. But to many, it *does*. So my statement is an acknowledgement that people who *want* external validation might be disappointed, when following their passion doesn’t get them any of that. Hence, my thought about *not* telling someone to follow their passion, unless I am certain they are mentally prepared to *not* get that validation from anyone but themself. If you are absolutely certain that someone has no interest in getting any external validation, then sure, tell them to follow their passion. But if you suspect that even a small part of their passion involves sharing what they make, with an expectation that people will like it and praise them for it, I would warn them about the possibility that no one ever will.
5:45 the part where he talks about having an idea that you sit on and dont do, can then a few months later come out by another artist/team is so true. Like there is an ebb of ideas given to artists that then get passed around if they aren't expressed.
There’s a kind of “spiritual obedience” being discussed here. I relate to that. Seeing past what everyone else SEEMS to be assuming; and pointing out that underlying principle that seems to be kind of protruding from the woodwork… except the woodwork is like the veil of the space between objects and these things kind of just come out, like a wormhole created by Dr. Strange or something. I tried to describe this process to my brother who is a Major in the Air Force. He nodded his head and said, “Yeah. Yeah. It’s called ‘Leadership’.”
When we say something is instinctive or comes from talent, I'd dare say those are our best moments and those moments are not coming from a person. It's exactly obedience and it really is coming from something like God or quantum or the universe or some shit, not you as a person. When the ego dissolves, when it's just love and enjoyment, not making money or getting a job done, that's when we become the instruments of something bigger than ourselves. It's a wonderful experience. Funny enough it usually leads to all sorts of achievements and successes for the individual.
@@deneb3552 Most indeed. I agree. When left to my own devices, no matter how much I THINK I know, I come up short. Absolutely agree that when I do good, it MUST be God; not me. The evidence speaks for itself. What’s really hard is knowing what to do IN BETWEEN those moments… or maybe, I misjudge and I AM being used, but I just don’t like it sometimes? I might think I know a thing or two - but, really, no matter how much science I can do, maybe what I perceive to be good and right… maybe it just isn’t? There’s an interview with John Mayer where he talks about writer’s block being when the “reader doesn’t agree with what the writer is doing”(in the mind). And the question is, IS THE READER WRONG? And life is like that, too… Maybe, the observer (in the mind) doesn’t agree with what the performer is doing; but maybe the observer is wrong? And so there is this cognitive dissonance that goes along with being God’s instrument… Because the flesh disagrees with the spirit. And on the point of quantum, or the universe - it is well known that there is a debate as to whether quantum is really describing a probabilistic universe, or whether it only APPEARS that way because of our inability to compute all the aspects of literally every single utterly fundamental event… which we know we can’t do; there are just too many particles/localized packets of energy to even begin to do that; and they’re moving too quickly, and their trajectories are still theoretical because we have to make a lot of assumptions based on what we THINK we know… So, at the most fundamental physical level, we’re still playing with numbers too complex for us to put into understanding - but our MINDS can visualize; we can slow those events down, and imagine them microscopically, and play out the dynamics and the fluid motions… but proving what the mind can visualize is a near impossible feat. It can be communicated, and then there are those who can visualize and agree and others who can’t visualize and so are relegated to trusting only in what they can control - the numbers. The irony being that numbers are merely a macro-physical representation of yet another abstract; but it doesn’t seem that way to those who rely on merely their physical senses… Um… My point was that, yeah; God is beyond our numbers, the universe MIGHT NOT BE, but His control over it is not going to be predictable no matter how good we become at that… So who are we to think that when we made a good decision, that it was US that did it? It seems rather arrogant to me… but arrogance is only reserved for those who have the hubris to go against what is seemingly known; so it’s just an extreme lack of an awareness… Just like when you plant the tree, grow the tree, cut down the tree, work the lumber, whittle some blocks, square them off, and show the toddler who you feed and raise and teach to stack the blocks; then he stacks the blocks and he says, “I DID IT!” And you say, “Yes, you did it. 👏” And before all that, God created the universe within with the sun and earth reside, the sun’s warmth, the earth’s green, he made the trees to exist and to grow, made the tree an object that COULD be worked, made stones which can BECOME metal, made the physics which makes it POSSIBLE to make saws and sawmills, and made the air which the hands breath that are ABLE to fashion out of those materials the blocks which were made possible by the control of dimension in the first place, the forces that allow the blocks to be stacked, the processes which allow you to have a son to teach, the heart to love, the mouth to speak, the concept of teaching and glory and success… But, “We did it. 👏”
@@TarzanHedgepeth haha, exactly...nice picture with the tree I dig. I think we literally can't do wrong because everything happens for a reason. Maybe it's a better way to think about it like "how can I achieve this state of being in agreement with myself and just enjoy being, doing, creating whatever" that flow or zen state and I'm telling you, there are pretty mechanical, easy, free and in a very literal sense "natural" ways, methods to get there. Then it becomes something like a path, the more you walk on it, the easier it becomes to get there. Because you know where you're going. That's basically meditation, a psychedelic experience with intention, maybe a NDE I suppose, I never had the latter. Anyway, it's interesting how "creativity" is fundamental to a balanced, peaceful life like that. Even if you're not an "artist" which you are if you live like this whatever you do turns into art anyway. One thing is for sure, we gotta be humble and try and overcome our egos. That single thing, even just the intention makes everything much better. Things just start to click. ...too bad we can't do this with a splif sitting on a bench with a cold beverage eh 😁
I love what he said about coming up with ideas. Don't force and pressure it to come up, just always be open, because the universe will always give it to you no matter what; no matter the place nor the time, it will always arrive. And, once it arrives, take it and act on it, or else that idea will eventually dissolve. Plus, the more you do things, the more ideas will generate throughout the process. So, just do it!
This reminds me of the parable of the sower in the Bible. Ideas are the seeds coming down to different people (soils). In order to grow something great you need to be open, ready, and have the skills/work ethic to execute on the idea. Just like how the soil has to be prepared before a seed can grow.
Rick Rubin on Joe Rogan. This just made my morning 🙏🏽🙏🏽🌞 His new book just arrived. Can't wait to take in all his wisdom and beautiful thoughts on music and life! How lucky are we to be alive at the same time as Rick Rubin yooooo X
Openness, awareness, knowing that you're a part of something bigger, curiosity and trust. I adore Rick, RUclips, Joe, this clip and tge amazingly engaged audience in here. Life. Is. Good 🎉
I love how he says "you can't know what's gonna be successful you just have to try and hope for the best" when everything he touches is instantly successful
It really is magic like he said. It comes from following your energetics. It comes down to every single decision you make, u have to honor the way ur energetics are aligned in this world to have the best path for success. We don’t honor what we truly want to do so a lot of us are not following the right path.
idk y but that surfing analogy really is one of the most inspiring things i've ever heard. It solidifies in the idea that success can never be predicted but even a little tweak or decision could get the ball rolling and with consistency, one day you wake up and realised you actually had achieved the things you always wanted to.
as someone battling a number of things for two years trying to launch a new business, this resonated wholesale. completely agree and is refreshing to hear statements from an elder when i often struggle of imposter syndrome
Such an intelligent and down to Earth individual. He will be looked up to long after his eventual death. Rick Rubin has helped some of the most talented and successful people reach their highest potential. I wish there were more people like him in the world. I’d love to one day get to meet him and thank him for his influence on my own artistic journey with music (even if I’ll always be a small creator)
“Collaborating with the universe”. Holy shit needed to hear that. We’re working collaboratively to build the best path ever. Trust the moments that come to you although sometimes suddenly & unexpectedly, yet align with the bigger vision & purpose. ❤
I think what he says is pure gold; even better. Knowledge better than anything tangible. Only takeaway I'd have to say is, I don't want to wait til one more person tries to get my attention to something to gravitate. I want/need to be able to connect with that power immediately.
This is fucking fantastic advice. Rubin is literally the only person that’s somewhat famous that I would want to hang out with he just seems like he figured life out.
You can literally hallucinate objects and beings into existence because what's happening is you're tapping into that pure abstract creative potential of mind. That's exactly what you want. Of course it can be kind of freaky but Rick is that times a thousand.
I know what you mean brother. You can think of a hanging towel as a floating rectangle, or a sink basin as a weird geometric physical math equation. Just know your not the odd one out...and those examples I gave can be applied to anything and everything
A couple of points to help: 1: Overall mixed resonance (which can potentially be missed out on and end up with possibly unintentional effects on the other hand or intentional - which you can be sneaky - more or less - with). One way to think of that is mixing two colors together to make a third one that neither of the first two can do by themselves, this mechanic also applies to frequencies. 2: When you say "They'll like this", do you mean "like" as in what really resonates with you or "like" when at least one of many positive emotions are experienced (especially ones you and maybe many others deem "fitting")?
Nobody IS a creative genius, but everybody HAS a creative genius. It's up to the individual to release this genius at any given point in their lives. Work ethic supersedes talent every time.
I really needed to hear all of that. I’ve recently moved country with the vision to take my music and vision further. I’ve felt lost along the way, doubt, creativity has been low and hard, lot of writers block. I think I need to collaborate further with the universe, open my eyes and take out my headphones. Thank you for this 🖤
“if we listen to what’s going on around us…you hear someone else say it, my experience is: when you’re open and looking for these clues in the world, you find that they’re happening all the time, often right when you need them!” 🎉
Going through his book - I already feel that I have to revisit it once a year. so many truths, and the audiobook is great. his voice, the singing bowl, the quotes. damn
I'm an animator who's picked up writing couple months ago... the way he talks about universe and creativity is absolutely resonating with me. Only after I started skeeing out stories everywhere I saw what the world was about.
Working at 7/11 my coworker knew I made music but he would always tell me when I was slacking and I’d tell him ur right I gotta work on it cause Your work ethic is your art ethic
It is crazy how every single one of these quotes are articulations of things I've noticed throughout the last couple of years, that I haven't been able to explicitly formulate yet.
As an artist, producer, and audio engineer, this video has been very helpful for my creative process for my 4th upcoming album JAPAN PART THREE, thank you Rick for empowering artists to express themselves and work together to create the best work possible for the world 🙏🏽👨🏽🎨💎 with gratitude, LaynoProd
Absolutely dead on. There are so many good points here but the most important is this: knowing that it(creativity) comes into us from the outside. It's not your idea. I tell students this alot by saying that there is an invisible undercurrent flowing at all times like radio waves in the ionosphere and all you have to do is be the radio receiver, quiet your mind and listen.
Such a wise man!!! As a music artist his message resonated with me deeply! Especially the part where he spoke on not acting on your idea and someone else does instead. I’ve felt that way with instrumentals I’ve found on RUclips and later hearing some big name artist make a song with an extremely identical beat! I take it as I’m on the right path for my creativity and to act on it more!!!! 💚 Thank you for posting this video, I appreciate it💯
@@jonnyboyy24 I'm not ashamed but watching this guy live his life at home is kind of appalling. He has produced great talents but what he's done with his wealth is why I even bothered to say that, no shame on my end rofl.
4:53 do what’s personal to you, take it as far as you could go-really push the boundaries. people will resonate with it if they’re supposed to resonate with it.
Blood, sugar sex magik for instance. Only just learnt that yesterday 🤦one of my favourite albums of my lifetime. But Tom petty etc etc etc. Dudes inside a lot of amazing music.
Haha never listened to anything this guy said until today and dude is just now one of my favorite people. So much humility and confidence at the same time.
0:01 - How to live a creative life 0:48 - Following your passions 1:17 - Rick's recipe for success 2:16 - Talent vs. work ethic 2:34 - How to be a better collaborator 3:14 - How to make great art 4:29 - Create art for yourself 5:05 - Where ideas come from 6:51 - The role of laughter 7:14 - Collaborating with the universe (the timestamps in the description doesn't work)
As a music creator and sculptor from the heart and afrer learning how mind and souls works, what he is sharing here is deeply real and no so many people understand this. Is Amazing how he can explain in a simple and powerful way. Artists Creators BRING YOUR LOVE AND UNIQUENESS. Let's heal this word with our art😇😇😇
I share so much similar topics with Rick that I speak to my cousins about. I’d love to have a convo with Rick about anything that comes to mind and it will go so deep.
That word he was looking for when talking about collaboration was “competition”. When you’re more concerned about getting YOUR idea out instead of working together for the project as a whole, that’s not collaboration, that’s competition. I see that a lot whenever I have to do wedding gigs and there’s more than one photographer. Ego can get in the way and then you’re stepping all over each other and it’s never pleasant. Always support other artist.
It also helps to be born into certain demographics with family and connections in a major entertainment city (NY/LA). I went to NYU Film and saw these variables over and over again. Not saying this was the case with Rick Rubin (*he lived in Weinstein dorm a few years before me, so I'm told), but it's astonishing to me how often this bit of objective reality is glossed over or not mentioned at all, in favor of vague mystical assurances like 'follow your passion'. In all fairness, there are some (Jarmusch, Warhol) who are not from those major cities, starting up without built in connections etc, but I'm asserting this in an important variable that's not really 'fashionable' to mention
@@nathan_johnson what are you saying that forget about how others have connections and still go after our dreams ? (this is not a diss im genuinely asking)
@@nathan_johnson connections get you further, faster. Consider ivy league schools. You're not paying for the education, you're paying for the connections. Why do you want (the right) connections? Because it can catapult your career
This video is packed full of useful information and motivation for someone trying to create something out of nothing. I never knew I had it in me till late in life. I've learned so much in a short period of time.
Authentic Creativity is the highest form of Self-Love. Thank you for this interview. Rooting for all the creative talents out there. Take great care of yourSelf. You've got this. 💜
4:53 “Do what’s personal to you…take it far, really push the boundaries…people will resonate with it if they are supposed to…it’s magic…it’s thru the doing…”🌊🏄🏻♀️ Thank you, great info 🙏👂🌱❤️✨🌎
Of course Mr. Rubin is speaking of the glorious world of magic and miracles. He forgets to mention the dirty back room deals done on a “casting couch” to get someone’s work noticed. Much of it is about who you know, who’s got the blow and if you blow.
Great to hear that doing what is personal to you is not necessarily a contradiction with attracting an audience. It just requires patience and enjoying your creative work for its own sake
As an artist, musician and video animator for the last twenty years, Rubin is saying almost everything I have thought about being an artist all in one video. So many great points here.
Hey bro how do I contact you about working on a project , cheers !
Totally agreed..
I don’t get it. What does he actually DO?? Lol
@@insertmyidentityhere He sits with the artists and guides them in the direction the want to go and provides his knoledge of music and a calming presence which has proved sucessful as many bands have produced their best work under him. He is also just a great mentor for musicians.
You are nothing
“It’s the people that you first see and might not like, that you come to like. Because you don’t understand them at first. Those are the ones that change the world.”
💯 agreed I often get that experience as I'm very creative at something
Well said
i dont like racists
@@Felix-yk4ln oh look guys another person calling someone a racist big surprise foh 🤡
@@Felix-yk4ln😂😂
I love what he said about collaboration. It’s not about getting “your idea” into the thing you’re working on, it’s about working together to build the best thing.
Nobody asked
@@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward .... nobody asked, but it's still a great comment.
Gotta be willing to leave your ego out of certain situations. It's a beautiful thing when a talented person humbles them selves for the greatness of the bigger creative process 🙏
@@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward nobody asked for any comments here....
theoretical it's just like it...but when it comes to actual work...that's when things start to happen and theory fails eventualy....but that's just my experience.
When he mentions , “when you hear the unexpected you laugh” there’s been a couple times recently writing a verse in my flow state, recorded it , and listened to it. I’ll just laugh after I hear it, for it’s impressive to me , that I even made that verse. Such a remarkable feeling of joy , sometimes I even tear up. Music such a beautiful conduit .
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I get that, you’ll be like how the f*ck did I come up with that? 😂
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I like to call it “hype” . When I write some clever stuff off flowing from getting inspiration from my previous lyrics I get so hype I laugh and it does bring joy
Such a simple idea but when he said "we're not smart enough to know what people like" that really resonated with me. It's so true and half the time people don't even know what they themselves like. A lot of incredible things stop in their tracks when a creator gets in their head thinking about what's gonna be received well or not.
I never knew I liked gangsta rap until a Jewish guy who 'doesn't know anything about music' made it seem cool.
And you will always be happier knowing you did it your way. I think that is most important anyways.
@@guyincognito320 oy vey
It's great when friends and family like my music, but I don't make it for them, and I certainly don't consider what strangers think. I think the problem is that a lot of people don't want to be a good artist, they want to be a famous artist, and that's a stress I don't wish on anyone because nothing harms art AND the artist more than caring what other people might think.
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Rick Rubin gave me my creativity back
🙏 welcome back
Rick fully understands the inner power artists and everyone has if we simply get out of our own way and trust it. It’s always there no matter how many times you fall, or let’s drugs win or allow someone elses limitations affect you it’s still there ❤ it never leaves us.
Thank you, for this wonderful comment! I hope the universe gives you want you need!
I needed to hear this ❤
So true! We all have it inside... And we are all connected and can help each other see!
This is literally it. It took me 10 years in the industry to realize. Awesome gift to the creative community
At the end of the video, Rick Rubin talks about being open and observant to forces of the universe guiding you toward an idea. As an artist, I have found that this is indeed the case. It is a real phenomenon. Once you open yourself up to the gentle nudging the universe has to offer, you will never be searching for new ideas, new ideas will be presenting themselves on a constant and continual basis when you are in the open and observing mindset.
By the way... also true. If you get a really good idea and don't act on it, in time someone else will get the same idea and they will act on it. It's happened to me... just sayin'....
But how do you do it literally ? Even if you’re mentally ready for it.
@@DilminPerera I think the best way is to go someplace where you've never been before, like a part of the city you live in or a town you've never been to, and you just walk around without any plan and see what draws your attention. When something draws you just go toward it, explore it and try to figure out why it has a pull on your attention. Try doing this with a clear mind and no itinerary. Engage in conversation with strangers you meet along the way. Open yourself up to the infinite possibilities and trust that the universe will show you things you need to see. That's how you start.
Also do something that you always thought you should do or wanted to do in the back of your mind but have never done. This could be going to an art show opening or a lecture or jumping in your car for a weekend road trip with no plan or map. You're sure to discover something that will be meaningful for a long time to come. I think this whole process of connecting with the universe involves moving out of your comfort zone and just getting out and exploring. I live in Michigan and once took a road trip to the east coast with no real plan, no hotel reservations, just a book of "off the beaten path" attractions and that was one of the greatest vacations of my life.
@@DK-jg5vk I got to have such a road trip 3 years ago, it was a 20 day pilrimage to the west coast and back and it was by far one of the coolest things I've ever done in my life. My first 3 or 4 days were really uncomfortable and infuriating, but once i removed all my expectations of the trip, and took everything as it came, thats when i truly started to have the time of my life. And its really true what you say about getting out and moving to find things that are meaningful, thats the easiest way to do it.
Rick speaks pure 24K Gold in this interview!!As an emerging artist/producer working two other day jobs I can appreciate his pearls of wisdom.
We all in the same boat huh?
@@bobberino4775 we sure are working helpdesk supporting the vision
psst... pure gold is 24k gold
@@lmaolmao6043 no way i started my help desk job this week lmao
24 kakarot magik bby
I love Rick Rubin's book, really made me happy to put a face to the name and to hear the wisdom from the man himself!
From an artist and a producer for almost 20 years, this is literally spot on. Everything he's saying is true.
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The way she goes................
"It's the people who you first see and you might not like that you come to like because you don't understand them first. Those are the one who change the world."
Props. How many times I've met folks and straight up had unnecessary hate towards them, yet when I sat with them and made myself engage in connecting with them, we began to grow a fruitful and collaborative relationship and they are some of my fav peeps. Awareness is key. Be your expressive self!
What makes Joe so great is he knows to to just listen, and then boom gives a super insightful question
I had one of those mornings where I just shot up awake while it was still dark out. I went through my morning routine ablaze with energy and passion and then I saw this video and thought, I should take a second here. Glad I did.
Yup I’ve lacked work ethic for so long, and he’s absolutely correct. Talent without work ethic will not go anywhere. Unless discovered by someone who offers a really great opportunity, but usually that’s noticed for someone who actually has work ethic.
This is my first time doing this man but I can say he is definitely awakened😂 he’s explaining how vibration and alignment works right in front of everyone. Literally keys to success if you take advantage of it
interesting
He’s been meditating since he was maybe 13-14. Funny thing is, he went to the doctor’s about neck pain and they told him to try meditation. Now look at him. Amazing man.
Absolutely love this bro
When asked about creativity.. I say "creativity comes from inside.. it just comes" due to lack of words to explain.. but here
how profoundly Rubin explained/discussed about almost all of the things and the magic that happens in a creative process..🔥💯
His book is phenomenal. Changed my life.
He's speaking so much truth in this. I especially relate to the "ever had an idea and 6 months later..." I've had that a bunch and all that has taught me is to act upon those ideas. I had an idea for a music video once and a year or so later, Dax did literally did it. I believe all ideas are out there and we can tune into the frequency and catch those ideas. If you don't, someone else will. No good idea will stay private for long.
Agreed 💯
The segment about hearing an idea from a stranger talking in a coffee shop is very interesting to me. I believe creative people naturally gravitate towards experiencing the world with a lens that could enable them to hear a strangers conversation and generate an idea from it, while other people might let it drown in the noise. Its about paying attention to the world around you
What he said about putting in the work. He's so right. I feel the reason sometimes I fell short is because of the work.. Sometimes I believe I put in the work. But, it didn't happen where I connected with everyone yet. I remember doing a song that I wrote in ten minutes. But, you knw what a momentary thing is sometimes a justififcation of what happens when you put in the work. Sometimes its overwhelming when you see what materializes when you put in the work.
I don’t think I’d ever give someone the advice of following their passion without also warning them of the real possibility that no one in the whole wide world will ever share, or have any interest at all, in that passion with them. He touches upon that possibility a couple of times, pointing out how sometimes it (what you create from you passion) doesn’t connect. Or maybe it’s not in the cards for that person to have that success. True. And when it comes to work ethic, it’s not about doing the work to create something. What matters is how much effort you put into self promotion and networking to gain whatever attention is required for your creative contribution to not die in solitude. Especially if what you have created is something that lies outside the bounds of being easily relatable. If the passion you follow is to create things that are easily understood and relatable, you will not have to work hard to get the recognition that allows you to share what you’ve done. If what you have created is not easily understood, or perhaps is even offensive to normality, tradition and relatability, you will need to work much harder to generate any interest. So sure, follow your passion. But don’t be surprised or disappointed if no one ever gives a shit about you and what you’ve created.
In the last sentence you make it seem like following your passion is a horrible thing to do?? The only attention that your art needs is your own, no one should need to depend on outside acceptance for what they made, as long as one can please themselves through their art then that's all that matters
@@loganm15 Yes, external validation *shouldn’t* matter. But to many, it *does*. So my statement is an acknowledgement that people who *want* external validation might be disappointed, when following their passion doesn’t get them any of that. Hence, my thought about *not* telling someone to follow their passion, unless I am certain they are mentally prepared to *not* get that validation from anyone but themself. If you are absolutely certain that someone has no interest in getting any external validation, then sure, tell them to follow their passion. But if you suspect that even a small part of their passion involves sharing what they make, with an expectation that people will like it and praise them for it, I would warn them about the possibility that no one ever will.
5:45 the part where he talks about having an idea that you sit on and dont do, can then a few months later come out by another artist/team is so true. Like there is an ebb of ideas given to artists that then get passed around if they aren't expressed.
There’s a kind of “spiritual obedience” being discussed here. I relate to that. Seeing past what everyone else SEEMS to be assuming; and pointing out that underlying principle that seems to be kind of protruding from the woodwork… except the woodwork is like the veil of the space between objects and these things kind of just come out, like a wormhole created by Dr. Strange or something.
I tried to describe this process to my brother who is a Major in the Air Force. He nodded his head and said, “Yeah. Yeah. It’s called ‘Leadership’.”
@Vert ty
When we say something is instinctive or comes from talent, I'd dare say those are our best moments and those moments are not coming from a person. It's exactly obedience and it really is coming from something like God or quantum or the universe or some shit, not you as a person. When the ego dissolves, when it's just love and enjoyment, not making money or getting a job done, that's when we become the instruments of something bigger than ourselves.
It's a wonderful experience.
Funny enough it usually leads to all sorts of achievements and successes for the individual.
@@deneb3552 Most indeed. I agree. When left to my own devices, no matter how much I THINK I know, I come up short.
Absolutely agree that when I do good, it MUST be God; not me. The evidence speaks for itself.
What’s really hard is knowing what to do IN BETWEEN those moments… or maybe, I misjudge and I AM being used, but I just don’t like it sometimes? I might think I know a thing or two - but, really, no matter how much science I can do, maybe what I perceive to be good and right… maybe it just isn’t?
There’s an interview with John Mayer where he talks about writer’s block being when the “reader doesn’t agree with what the writer is doing”(in the mind). And the question is, IS THE READER WRONG?
And life is like that, too…
Maybe, the observer (in the mind) doesn’t agree with what the performer is doing; but maybe the observer is wrong?
And so there is this cognitive dissonance that goes along with being God’s instrument…
Because the flesh disagrees with the spirit.
And on the point of quantum, or the universe - it is well known that there is a debate as to whether quantum is really describing a probabilistic universe, or whether it only APPEARS that way because of our inability to compute all the aspects of literally every single utterly fundamental event… which we know we can’t do; there are just too many particles/localized packets of energy to even begin to do that; and they’re moving too quickly, and their trajectories are still theoretical because we have to make a lot of assumptions based on what we THINK we know…
So, at the most fundamental physical level, we’re still playing with numbers too complex for us to put into understanding - but our MINDS can visualize; we can slow those events down, and imagine them microscopically, and play out the dynamics and the fluid motions… but proving what the mind can visualize is a near impossible feat. It can be communicated, and then there are those who can visualize and agree and others who can’t visualize and so are relegated to trusting only in what they can control - the numbers. The irony being that numbers are merely a macro-physical representation of yet another abstract; but it doesn’t seem that way to those who rely on merely their physical senses…
Um…
My point was that, yeah; God is beyond our numbers, the universe MIGHT NOT BE, but His control over it is not going to be predictable no matter how good we become at that…
So who are we to think that when we made a good decision, that it was US that did it?
It seems rather arrogant to me… but arrogance is only reserved for those who have the hubris to go against what is seemingly known; so it’s just an extreme lack of an awareness…
Just like when you plant the tree, grow the tree, cut down the tree, work the lumber, whittle some blocks, square them off, and show the toddler who you feed and raise and teach to stack the blocks; then he stacks the blocks and he says, “I DID IT!” And you say, “Yes, you did it. 👏”
And before all that, God created the universe within with the sun and earth reside, the sun’s warmth, the earth’s green, he made the trees to exist and to grow, made the tree an object that COULD be worked, made stones which can BECOME metal, made the physics which makes it POSSIBLE to make saws and sawmills, and made the air which the hands breath that are ABLE to fashion out of those materials the blocks which were made possible by the control of dimension in the first place, the forces that allow the blocks to be stacked, the processes which allow you to have a son to teach, the heart to love, the mouth to speak, the concept of teaching and glory and success…
But, “We did it. 👏”
@@TarzanHedgepeth haha, exactly...nice picture with the tree I dig. I think we literally can't do wrong because everything happens for a reason. Maybe it's a better way to think about it like "how can I achieve this state of being in agreement with myself and just enjoy being, doing, creating whatever" that flow or zen state and I'm telling you, there are pretty mechanical, easy, free and in a very literal sense "natural" ways, methods to get there. Then it becomes something like a path, the more you walk on it, the easier it becomes to get there. Because you know where you're going. That's basically meditation, a psychedelic experience with intention, maybe a NDE I suppose, I never had the latter.
Anyway, it's interesting how "creativity" is fundamental to a balanced, peaceful life like that. Even if you're not an "artist" which you are if you live like this whatever you do turns into art anyway.
One thing is for sure, we gotta be humble and try and overcome our egos. That single thing, even just the intention makes everything much better. Things just start to click.
...too bad we can't do this with a splif sitting on a bench with a cold beverage eh 😁
@@deneb3552 yeah. I would have my black and cherry cavendish mix…. 😎👌🚬
I like his take on being 'personal' and being yourself.
Agreed 🙌
I love what he said about coming up with ideas. Don't force and pressure it to come up, just always be open, because the universe will always give it to you no matter what; no matter the place nor the time, it will always arrive. And, once it arrives, take it and act on it, or else that idea will eventually dissolve. Plus, the more you do things, the more ideas will generate throughout the process. So, just do it!
This reminds me of the parable of the sower in the Bible. Ideas are the seeds coming down to different people (soils). In order to grow something great you need to be open, ready, and have the skills/work ethic to execute on the idea. Just like how the soil has to be prepared before a seed can grow.
that's cuz almost everything is just literary theft from the Bible it teaches us everything
Rick Rubin on Joe Rogan. This just made my morning 🙏🏽🙏🏽🌞 His new book just arrived. Can't wait to take in all his wisdom and beautiful thoughts on music and life! How lucky are we to be alive at the same time as Rick Rubin yooooo X
As me, a musician, I needed this.
Openness, awareness, knowing that you're a part of something bigger, curiosity and trust.
I adore Rick, RUclips, Joe, this clip and tge amazingly engaged audience in here. Life. Is. Good 🎉
that is is!
The more I watch Rick Rubin speak, the more I get convinced that he doesn't know wtf he's doing. And that's actually beautiful!
I love how he says "you can't know what's gonna be successful you just have to try and hope for the best" when everything he touches is instantly successful
It really is magic like he said. It comes from following your energetics. It comes down to every single decision you make, u have to honor the way ur energetics are aligned in this world to have the best path for success. We don’t honor what we truly want to do so a lot of us are not following the right path.
Yes.
eloquently spoken. Same stuff Steven Pressfield writes about. yet it takes guts...
There’s a reason this man is so famous. It’s all right here. Friendly monsters among us. ❤
idk y but that surfing analogy really is one of the most inspiring things i've ever heard. It solidifies in the idea that success can never be predicted but even a little tweak or decision could get the ball rolling and with consistency, one day you wake up and realised you actually had achieved the things you always wanted to.
Life changing. We are here to help shift change toward better living. Thank you Rick Rubin you will always be a leader & catalyst in my vision. 🌹👑🙏💯
Love Rick’s advice he always calm #creativity
as someone battling a number of things for two years trying to launch a new business, this resonated wholesale.
completely agree and is refreshing to hear statements from an elder when i often struggle of imposter syndrome
Work ethic and developing (through doing the work) a perspective that's valuable to be shared to others.
Genius. Everyone works together to make the whole thing work.
Being creative, “ Life’s like that!” The universe has the details!
Such an intelligent and down to Earth individual. He will be looked up to long after his eventual death. Rick Rubin has helped some of the most talented and successful people reach their highest potential. I wish there were more people like him in the world. I’d love to one day get to meet him and thank him for his influence on my own artistic journey with music (even if I’ll always be a small creator)
bro calm down he's just 59 lol
eventual is crazy 😭
@@elliotcadieux bro everybody dies lmao it’s inevitable, I’d have used the same wordage for someone who is 40
@@CPLEE. how? You will eventually die too, you know this right?
You wish there were more people like him? Guess what? We’ all have the same creative abilities deep inside. Unleash your creative genius.
“Collaborating with the universe”. Holy shit needed to hear that. We’re working collaboratively to build the best path ever. Trust the moments that come to you although sometimes suddenly & unexpectedly, yet align with the bigger vision & purpose. ❤
Rick Rubin is a true wizard in every sense of the word.
this is my favorite video
🙏 some real gems in here
this is not my favourite video
@@raznatovicanastasijawhich one is it then?
@@CarlosLobo-b1j this one ruclips.net/video/zTJAsFqTCTg/видео.html
I think what he says is pure gold; even better. Knowledge better than anything tangible. Only takeaway I'd have to say is, I don't want to wait til one more person tries to get my attention to something to gravitate. I want/need to be able to connect with that power immediately.
This is fucking fantastic advice. Rubin is literally the only person that’s somewhat famous that I would want to hang out with he just seems like he figured life out.
Rick is a gift to Humanity
Stop it, that are your parents!
Grift to Humanity*
You can literally hallucinate objects and beings into existence because what's happening is you're tapping into that pure abstract creative potential of mind. That's exactly what you want. Of course it can be kind of freaky but Rick is that times a thousand.
No, you can't. Take it easy with those "hallunications". Cheers
I think that's just the DMT homie.
@@maryankitsenko9694 meds. Take them
I know what you mean brother. You can think of a hanging towel as a floating rectangle, or a sink basin as a weird geometric physical math equation. Just know your not the odd one out...and those examples I gave can be applied to anything and everything
@@businessofrhythm2315 didn't know I can get free medical advise on youtube. Thanks, but no.
A couple of points to help:
1: Overall mixed resonance (which can potentially be missed out on and end up with possibly unintentional effects on the other hand or intentional - which you can be sneaky - more or less - with). One way to think of that is mixing two colors together to make a third one that neither of the first two can do by themselves, this mechanic also applies to frequencies.
2: When you say "They'll like this", do you mean "like" as in what really resonates with you or "like" when at least one of many positive emotions are experienced (especially ones you and maybe many others deem "fitting")?
Watching this video is exactly what Rick is talking about in the last segment of the video. The universe wanted us all to see this and be inspired
Nobody IS a creative genius, but everybody HAS a creative genius. It's up to the individual to release this genius at any given point in their lives. Work ethic supersedes talent every time.
never felt more relatable creative wise. especially with the seeing the world the way you see it part.
I really needed to hear all of that. I’ve recently moved country with the vision to take my music and vision further. I’ve felt lost along the way, doubt, creativity has been low and hard, lot of writers block. I think I need to collaborate further with the universe, open my eyes and take out my headphones. Thank you for this 🖤
just stay open minded and keep working :) it does work I can assure you. just focus on your own stuff😇
“it’s not that they took your idea, it’s that it’s TIME for that” 💪
“if we listen to what’s going on around us…you hear someone else say it, my experience is: when you’re open and looking for these clues in the world, you find that they’re happening all the time, often right when you need them!” 🎉
Going through his book - I already feel that I have to revisit it once a year. so many truths, and the audiobook is great. his voice, the singing bowl, the quotes. damn
I'm an animator who's picked up writing couple months ago... the way he talks about universe and creativity is absolutely resonating with me.
Only after I started skeeing out stories everywhere I saw what the world was about.
I’m reading his new book right now. I recommend EVERYONE pick it up. I’m only 50 pages in and it really feels life changing.
What book?😂
@@SanderOM probably rick rubin's book ya sausage... called Creative Act: A Way of Being
Sounds cult-Ish. Be careful when your biggest inspiration starts selling books
I'm good. I've done the inspirational insights into creativity. I need to read manuals and marketing books.
Working at 7/11 my coworker knew I made music but he would always tell me when I was slacking and I’d tell him ur right I gotta work on it cause
Your work ethic is your art ethic
There’s nothing better than a meritocracy. Especially in the creative process. 💎
Agreed. Ideas over everything 🙌
It is crazy how every single one of these quotes are articulations of things I've noticed throughout the last couple of years, that I haven't been able to explicitly formulate yet.
As an artist, producer, and audio engineer, this video has been very helpful for my creative process for my 4th upcoming album JAPAN PART THREE, thank you Rick for empowering artists to express themselves and work together to create the best work possible for the world 🙏🏽👨🏽🎨💎 with gratitude, LaynoProd
Love to hear it! Thanks for sharing - Wishing you all the best 💙
Absolutely dead on. There are so many good points here but the most important is this: knowing that it(creativity) comes into us from the outside. It's not your idea. I tell students this alot by saying that there is an invisible undercurrent flowing at all times like radio waves in the ionosphere and all you have to do is be the radio receiver, quiet your mind and listen.
Such a wise man!!! As a music artist his message resonated with me deeply! Especially the part where he spoke on not acting on your idea and someone else does instead. I’ve felt that way with instrumentals I’ve found on RUclips and later hearing some big name artist make a song with an extremely identical beat! I take it as I’m on the right path for my creativity and to act on it more!!!! 💚 Thank you for posting this video, I appreciate it💯
Am I silly or isn't he the guy that doesn't not have any creative ability and just tells people his ideas
@@mondokruel you silly
@@omariyon what does he actually do lol
@@mondokruel literally google all the music he's produced and worked on and hopefully delete your ignorant comment out of shame lmao
@@jonnyboyy24 I'm not ashamed but watching this guy live his life at home is kind of appalling. He has produced great talents but what he's done with his wealth is why I even bothered to say that, no shame on my end rofl.
4:53 do what’s personal to you, take it as far as you could go-really push the boundaries. people will resonate with it if they’re supposed to resonate with it.
This stuff is gold. I feel his genuine energy coming across. He seems to just get it. Thank you for this!
Dudes a legend. If people knew his resume. He’s behind it all! 🙏
Blood, sugar sex magik for instance. Only just learnt that yesterday 🤦one of my favourite albums of my lifetime. But Tom petty etc etc etc. Dudes inside a lot of amazing music.
I could listen to this video at any point of the year and it’ll always resonate. Timeless wisdom. 👌🏻
Yea the most unlikely person, but again the perfect person. He doesn't even know about music! Love it.
Haha never listened to anything this guy said until today and dude is just now one of my favorite people. So much humility and confidence at the same time.
I like what he said about collaboration with the universe. I guess it’s the truth we actually have no our ideas, it’s coming from the world around
I need to hear this video every SUNDAY
Great interview Joe as always, thank you for not interrupting. Both of you great minds, thanks for sharing
there's so many creatives that need to hear this
0:01 - How to live a creative life
0:48 - Following your passions
1:17 - Rick's recipe for success
2:16 - Talent vs. work ethic
2:34 - How to be a better collaborator
3:14 - How to make great art
4:29 - Create art for yourself
5:05 - Where ideas come from
6:51 - The role of laughter
7:14 - Collaborating with the universe
(the timestamps in the description doesn't work)
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thx!
Bro the video is only 8 minutes, why the fuck is this necessary
just watch the whole video lol
@@Dibblesnsnibbles How do you expect me to watch this without subway surfer or sand or something being cut playing alongside it ?
As a music creator and sculptor from the heart and afrer learning how mind and souls works, what he is sharing here is deeply real and no so many people understand this. Is Amazing how he can explain in a simple and powerful way. Artists Creators BRING YOUR LOVE AND UNIQUENESS. Let's heal this word with our art😇😇😇
How can I learn more about this
Rick Rubin gets it!!! The Universe has your back and Life if happening “For You”, not to You! ❤
I share so much similar topics with Rick that I speak to my cousins about. I’d love to have a convo with Rick about anything that comes to mind and it will go so deep.
I've actually seen an idea of mine done successfully a little after it came to me. It was surreal
When he said either you can act on it or not and it is time for that I felt that so hard.
Great ideas always find those who seek them.
That word he was looking for when talking about collaboration was “competition”. When you’re more concerned about getting YOUR idea out instead of working together for the project as a whole, that’s not collaboration, that’s competition. I see that a lot whenever I have to do wedding gigs and there’s more than one photographer. Ego can get in the way and then you’re stepping all over each other and it’s never pleasant. Always support other artist.
It also helps to be born into certain demographics with family and connections in a major entertainment city (NY/LA). I went to NYU Film and saw these variables over and over again. Not saying this was the case with Rick Rubin (*he lived in Weinstein dorm a few years before me, so I'm told), but it's astonishing to me how often this bit of objective reality is glossed over or not mentioned at all, in favor of vague mystical assurances like 'follow your passion'. In all fairness, there are some (Jarmusch, Warhol) who are not from those major cities, starting up without built in connections etc, but I'm asserting this in an important variable that's not really 'fashionable' to mention
Not fashionable or not important? It’s only ever losers who haven’t gotten there that ever seem to suggest the latter.
@@nathan_johnson wtf is wrong with u dude
@@nathan_johnson what are you saying that forget about how others have connections and still go after our dreams ? (this is not a diss im genuinely asking)
@@nathan_johnson connections get you further, faster. Consider ivy league schools. You're not paying for the education, you're paying for the connections. Why do you want (the right) connections? Because it can catapult your career
@@nathan_johnson Hmm. What do you mean by 'getting there'?
I saw a glimpse of this in my feed and then RUclips refreshed and I'm so glad I saw the title and chased it down. This is awesome.
This video is packed full of useful information and motivation for someone trying to create something out of nothing. I never knew I had it in me till late in life. I've learned so much in a short period of time.
Same here I'm 32 just now learning I've been an artist this whole time never know it
God Bless Rick Rubin. Ill be buying his book after this interview.
The last thing he says is true. Absolutely!!
Love when he said you have an idea and don't move on it and it happens anyway 🔥
This dude is a Legend. 95% of the people don’t even know their life changed over the music he produced.
What was the music he produced??
Authentic Creativity is the highest form of Self-Love. Thank you for this interview.
Rooting for all the creative talents out there. Take great care of yourSelf. You've got this. 💜
So fucking good. The way he talks about the Universe talking to him, I get it, we all do.
4:53 “Do what’s personal to you…take it far, really push the boundaries…people will resonate with it if they are supposed to…it’s magic…it’s thru the doing…”🌊🏄🏻♀️ Thank you, great info 🙏👂🌱❤️✨🌎
Love this bit, it resonates with us as well. Thanks for sharing 💙
Of course Mr. Rubin is speaking of the glorious world of magic and miracles. He forgets to mention the dirty back room deals done on a “casting couch” to get someone’s work noticed. Much of it is about who you know, who’s got the blow and if you blow.
Always a pleasure...not many talk like him. Very humble and truthful. Just a cool person. No bullshit-talking.
Never expected Dumbledore to give me this level of inspiration
That’s what I love about podcast that you can get the information from the people the main source, rather than from a ghost writer ✍️
Well observed and communicated
Great to hear that doing what is personal to you is not necessarily a contradiction with attracting an audience. It just requires patience and enjoying your creative work for its own sake
He is such a wise creator.
I love Rick Rubin. The man is a gem.