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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
- Flea
#Level
#Little
#Music
#Private
#Through
I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
- Flea
#Music
#People
#Rock
#Think
#Who
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.
- Flea
#Doors
#Me
#Music
#Relationship
#School
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.
- Flea
#Incredible
#Jazz
#Old
#Up
#Young
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
#Art
#Music
#People
#Poetry
#World
Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
- Flea
#Me
#Rock Star
#Rock
#Tell
#Up
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.
- Flea
#Dad
#Diligence
#Hot
#Red
#Time
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
#Guitar
#High School
#School
#Two
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
#Create
#School
#Sound
#Tension
#Why
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
#Go
#Home
#Know
#Time
#Week
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.
- Flea
#Always
#Know
#Money
#People
#Position
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
#Feel
#Intellectual
#Moment
#Spiritual
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
#Good
#Joy
#Love
#Music
#Work
I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
- Flea
#Jazz
#Old
#Trumpet
#Up
#Wanted
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
#Genius
#Music
#People
#Time
Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
- Flea
#Beautiful Place
#Beautiful
#Great
#Place
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.
- Flea
#Go
#Integrity
#Lifestyle
#Live
#Person
Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
- Flea
#Chaos
#Doing Good
#Doing
#Good
#Worth
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
- Flea
#Circle
#Cool
#Every
#Hands
#Show
#Speech
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
#Change
#Easy
#Fall
#Grow
#Life
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