Rick Rubin Quotes

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

Definitely being spiritual helps me create good music because music is ultimately the sound of the god.

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

Sincere composers believe in God.

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

I really prayed and asked God for my first film.

The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

I'm probably at my least religious I've ever been in a while. When you're moved by music, that's always good. But I haven't been talking to God too much lately.