Sublime

So, what is it that Rick Rubin does? How has he helped artists make their best music for almost half a century across such disparate genres and styles? The secret seems to be rooted in self-discovery. As Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks put it, Rubin “has the ability and the patience to let music be discovered, not manufactured”—or, to use our te

Somebody always knows something I don’t know. If I had said no in the recording studio to ideas I did not fully understand, I wouldn’t have made records with nearly as much soul. Letting something you don’t understand come to fruition is an intelligence in itself.