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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school.
I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.
Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it.
I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
Outside of a couple of times I ran without eating right or being too tired, I always feel great after I run.
I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
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.
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.
I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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.
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.
Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.
If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.
I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.
A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.
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.
For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.
My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.
I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.