Quotes by Flea - Page 2

When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
Flea /
Disgusting
Personal Life
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It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves.
Flea /
Comfortable
Easy
Fall
Groove
Pushing
Often
Times
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When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.
Flea /
Band
College
Time People Go
Street
Time Street People
Smarts
Van
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The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.
Flea /
Education
Educated
Politician
Stupid
Violent
Big Part
Less
Part
Wars
Educated People
Important Thing
Likely
Most Important Thing
Start
The Most Important
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
Flea /
Changed
Musician
Path
Teach
Life Music Me
Life Music Path
Loved
Instrument
Loved Playing
Pick
Sent
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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.
Flea /
Disaster
Self Worth
Led
The One Thing
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The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
Flea /
Conservatory
Los Angeles
Old People
Teach
Music Where People
Ages
Angeles
Music People School
Los
Mostly
Nonprofit
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
Flea /
Malibu
Spots
Week
Canyon
Outdoors
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
Flea /
Deserve
Humankind
Richness
Universal
Time Music People
Dimension
Smaller
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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.
Flea /
Discipline
Public School
School System
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When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
Flea /
Great Music
Jazz
Jazz Band
Junior High
Marching Band
Orchestra
Music Great Always
Music Great Jazz
Departments
Junior
Junior High School
Marching
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I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.
Flea /
Bunch
Feels
Terrible
Good Music Me
Singer
Instrumental
Stops
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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
Flea /
Composition
Sound
Tension
Played
Liked
Trumpet
Note
Produces
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
Flea /
Aesthetic
Building Blocks
Math
Talking
Blocks
Works
Consist
Same Stuff
Studying
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I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.
Flea /
Running
Gorgeous
Malibu
Nina
Absolutely
Named
Canyon
Plan
Trainer
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
Flea /
Running
Cool
Body
Felt
Flow
Universe
Your Body
After
Before
Open
Opened
Parts
Start
While
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It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else.
Flea /
Conversation
Lions
Malibu
Mountain
Runs
To Be Honest
Trail
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Water is my main state. If I time before I run - like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I'll eat oatmeal. but I'm a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit.
Flea /
Fruit
Half
Oatmeal
Vegetables
Water
Time Good Water
General
Before
Run
Digest
Grains
Hour
Hour And A Half
Main
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
Flea /
Ethiopia
Famine
Filled
Records
Art Poetry Music
Writers
Intellectuals
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Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.
Flea /
Band
Bass
Chili
Guitar
Guitar Player
High School
Peppers
Player
School
Two Weeks
Started
School High School High
Guitar School High School
Bass Player
Became
Original
Weeks
Close
High
Later
Met
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Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.
Flea /
Adler
Band
Bedroom
Fence
Football
Rehearsing
Window
Played
Backyard
Climbed
First
Street
Head
His
Over
Some
Rocking
See
Slash
Steven
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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.
Flea /
Joy
Love Work Good
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The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.
Flea /
Quality
Conservatory
Ensemble
Fundamentals
Instruction
Particular
Rock Star
Setting
Technique
Theory
Star
Private
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Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.
Flea /
Blunders
Intellectual
Little Bit
Spiritual
Type
Wiser
Younger
Bit
Less
Turning
Definitely
Dumber
Gigantic
Likely
Moment
Physical
Sharp
Stock
Taking
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When I got with Nina Greenberg, I had been running for a few months already without a trainer. But then she gave me a program and guided me through my runs, showing me how to take care of myself and letting me know I should ice my legs and stretch - stuff I hadn't been doing.
Flea /
Running
Ice
Legs
Months
Nina
Program
Take Care
Myself Me Care
Guided
Gave
Runs
Showing
Stretch
Trainer
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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!
Flea /
Teacher
High School
Invited
Music Career
Orchestra
Ran
School
Speak
Used
Years Ago
Music Me Day
Career
Teacher Music Me
High
Every Day
Room
She
Viability
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
Flea /
Air
Invisible
Math
Order
Paint
Shapes
Understanding
Vibrations
Works
Colors
Create
Different Shapes
Forming
Gives
Quicker
Speeds
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
Flea /
Animal
Entertaining
Lying
Staring
Love Home Music
Ceiling
Certain Point
Entertaining People
Gig
Rocking
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