Jane's Addiction Quotes
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Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.
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As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
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I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.
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Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.
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I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house.
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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Then mimick'd my voice with satyrical sneer,And sent me away with a Flea in my ear.
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There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.
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Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and had a baby on the way.
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I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.
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For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.
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If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.
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I was on a path that could've really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept me focused and gave me something to believe in and a sense of self-worth and a discipline was music.
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I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore.
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I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.
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Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!
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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
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I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror!
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I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.
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Sometimes it's hard to link domestic violence with murder because it's such a broad jump, except it is a domestically violent situation and probably the worst-case scenario in a domestically violent world.
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Somewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song.
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If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.