Red Hot Chili Peppers Quotes
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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?'
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I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.
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It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.
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I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.
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I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.
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Nobody starts out evil - we know that. It's life circumstances that lead them to that.
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I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.
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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?'
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Every true artist is at war with the world.
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Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.
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That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.
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Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.
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Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.
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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.
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When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
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We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.
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I think dying is the ultimate high...
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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.
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I am very sensitive about characters being annoying in movies.
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Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
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Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.
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I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.
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I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
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Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
