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I think maybe there's a part of me that needs adversity from the rest of the world in order to feel motivated to want to prove people wrong. I need people to be like, 'What is this weirdo doing?'
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers
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You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
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.
Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.
Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers -
The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term 'instrumental music' you think it's real serious stuff and everybody's playing a million notes and it's about playing fast. That's not what we do.
Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers -
The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
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Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Nobody starts out evil - we know that. It's life circumstances that lead them to that.
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.
Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers