Flea Quotes

Flea

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 16, 1962

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.

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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

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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.

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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'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.

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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.

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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

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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.

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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

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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.

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With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

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I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school.

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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.

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I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

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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.

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