Red Hot Chili Peppers Quotes
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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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We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.
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'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.
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Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.
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I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.
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Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.
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I don't think there should be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, period.
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...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.
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I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.
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Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.
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The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.
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It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.
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Family time is really important to me.
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Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.
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'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' is one of my favorite movies; it's a film that's a human comedy, it's a drama, and the characters all, in a way, fit the teenage archetypes, but they don't become stereotypes because each of the actors brought their own presence and their own personality to the screen.
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My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
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I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.
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In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.
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That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
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You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.
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Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
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I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
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This Life is More than Just a read through.
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Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.