Flea Quotes

Flea

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 16, 1962

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

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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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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

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Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

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We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.

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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

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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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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.

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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

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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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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

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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.

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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.

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When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it.

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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.

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