Red Hot Chili Peppers Quotes
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So, naturalists observe, a fleaHas smaller fleas that on him prey;And these have smaller still to bite 'em,And so proceed ad infinitum.Thus every poet in his kindIs bit by him that comes behind.
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My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.
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I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.
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I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
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For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.
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We live in a time where there's a required instant gratification from audiences. That's a fun challenge in terms of putting together this teaser, picking and choosing how much you're actually giving away.
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Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.
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Music that I really love and believe in and think is extraordinarily honest and beautiful doesn't always become popular. (Oct, 1994 interview).
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What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.
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People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.
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Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.
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I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left 'Star Wars'.
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She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.
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Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
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We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.
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There were times when all Hillel and I had was each other. We were fucked up and understood what it was to be living in an out-of-control fog. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
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Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.
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I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.
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My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.
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The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.
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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.
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I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.
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The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.