Anthony Kiedis Quotes
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
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Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.
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My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.
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I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
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I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.
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For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
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Before, Tiffany sold watches only in its own stores. Now, Tiffany watches are sold in 1,500 stores.
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In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.
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Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.
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If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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She has that kind of baby face, a very young face. So I was interested in working with Kate [Moss].
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Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.
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To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.
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From what I see, nowadays punk and anarchy are still connected with "fast loud music by smelly drunk chaos-people" and, yes, I know I'm over-generalizing here. So when the occasional venue still describes us The ex as "anarchopunk" that's a real bummer, since it attracts an audience that expects a kind of music - which we don't play - and it keeps away another audience that actually might have liked it when they would have come. That's a pity, for both them and us.
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It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.
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My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
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A lot of people in the U.S. used to say punk really didn't change anything, but I think it did. It was an intangible thing, not a visible thing. It took us through to a new phase of music and a way of seeing things.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.
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I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
