Rick Rubin

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1,782 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5d ago

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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin · Steven Pressfield · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

For a long time, I was

Is it the very best version it could ever be?

Is there anything else we could ever possibly do?

And you decided against that, like it's yeah comes quicker than that.

It comes faster.

Once it sounds good, we're in a safe zone.

And then any additional things we want to try are fine.

Uh-huh.

But we always have to A-B it back with the first time it sounded good to us and make sure it's better than that.

Uh-huh.

Do you know what I'm saying?

Uh-huh.

And sometimes it's not.

And sometimes with the records I make, we don't know we're making an album when it's happening.

We're preparing to make an album.

But then when we go to make the album, it's not as good as the preparation.

Uh-huh.

So then in those cases, the preparation is the album.

sometimes it's like a house of cards where

You catch lightning in a bottle.

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