Erno Rubik Quotes

I play the guitar, and I juggle.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.

Rachmaninov's hands were big. My hands are small. But only hands small.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

I was always pretty good at designing things.

I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

Human beings evolved opposable thumbs for a reason. The sense of reward you get from making something with your hands can't be earned any other way. It's obvious that people learn faster from 'hands-on' experience than they do watching someone else do something.

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

Nothing special, I have not a special talent. I have been born with a sound, and I like music and try to serve it, but talent is a scientist.

To solve the Cube, you need special skills and understanding. For example, pattern recognition is very important to solve the Cube.

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song, but it was a big struggle.

I was at my house, and me, and my brother, and my sister were kind of just playing around. And I was like, 'I wonder if I can twist this apple and rip it apart?' So I was playing around, and I did it, and I was like, 'Wow, that kind of takes a firm grip.'

When John said that he wanted me to play with him on piano, I told him that there were many others who were qualified. He said, 'I want you there because you can do it.'

I did a lot of engineering things, like taking apart my brother's model car when I was 10. I also played the piano for about 10 years. I auditioned for Juilliard but didn't get in.

Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.

A lot of people can score. What else can you do?