Top 100 Anthony Kiedis Quotes
#1. Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.
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#2. Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.
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#3. I'm a crier, let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way.
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#5. Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little balls of bullshit, we could all become players in that great universal orchestra again.
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#6. What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.
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#7. Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.
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#8. There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around.
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#9. I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
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#10. We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.
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#11. Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
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#12. She was a source of love and comfort and friendship and companionship and like-mindedness without any of the difficulties of a girlfriend
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#14. Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.
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#15. I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.
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#16. The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.
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#18. But it seems clear to me that on some level, spirits choose their parents, because these potential parents possess certain traits and values that the soon-to-be child needs to assimilate during his or her lifetime.
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#19. I was withering away, mentally, spiritually, physically, creatively- everything was fading out.
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#20. It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.
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#21. A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.
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#22. You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
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#23. I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience
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#24. I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.
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#25. You're not getting the b-level tunes. Our most recent producer, Danger Mouse, was quite sure about that. So you're getting the best of the best, the cream of the cream of what we have to offer.
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#26. Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.
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#27. Whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.
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#28. I've acclimated to the music-while-exercising thing.
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#29. I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.
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#30. Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
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#31. I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch.
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#32. We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.
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#33. I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.
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#34. We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.
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#36. I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.
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#37. When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
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#40. As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.
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#41. Just the kind of girl I liked - the weirdo in the bunch.
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#42. To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life.
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#43. I'm not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn't speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I'll savor a solitary apricot that's been kissed by
my baby.
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#44. When I returned to the bedroom, there was confetti all over the room. I had no idea what had happened until I picked up one of the pieces of confetti.
"Oh, shit. That's a nipple. She must have found the pictures," I thought.
I was right.
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#45. We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.
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#46. What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.
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#47. You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The next time you see your girl, you can't look her straight in the eyes the same way you did for all those years.
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#48. It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.
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#51. It was all tragic information because it wasn't me, but I definitely didn't lose interest and move on
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#52. You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.
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#53. The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.
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#54. Always, you wake up to an unpleasant memory and an unpleasant body and your spirit is reduced to a pile of dirty ashes residing somewhere inside of your ass. You've gotta face the music, which is a beautiful island outside, but you can't even bear to look out the window.
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#56. I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.
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#57. My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.
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#58. As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
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#60. I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.
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#61. I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.
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#62. And we used "I love you" like an apology for the things we couldn't give each other
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#63. Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.
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#64. Those are the feelings you feel when you're out there and enough dark energy possesses you and you think, "Who the fuck am I? What happened to me?
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#65. Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.
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#66. We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.
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#67. I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.
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#68. Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.
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#69. All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.
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#70. I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.
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#73. I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.
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#74. I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
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#75. I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.
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#76. In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.
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#77. It is difficult to recognize true love, the one which you feel for the other person, when for years the girls, even more than one per night, after concerts would sneak in our beds and were willing to do everything - group sex also - just to stay with Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot ...
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#78. When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.
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#79. Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
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#80. George,
we're the Red Hot Chili Peppers, we're from Hollywood, California,
we're really hard-rocking motherfuckers, and we think you
should produce our record.
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#81. If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.
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#82. And then I realized I was high. I loved the sensation. It felt like medicine to soothe the soul and awaken the senses. There was nothing awkward or scary-I didn't feel like I had lost control-in fact, I felt like I was in control.
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#84. My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.
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#85. I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.
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#86. I wanted to be the best at whatever it was that was in front of me.
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#87. Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
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#88. When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.
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#89. She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.
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#90. A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.
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#91. She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.
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#92. And when you're eighteen years old, it doesn't take that much provoking to get you to a place where you can't stop yourself
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#93. I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.
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#94. I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.
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#95. It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.
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#96. The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.
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#97. I remember thinking, 'Sometimes you're riding high in April and shot down in June, but at least we have each other.' We were full of enthusiasm and color, and you could sense that something was brewing that could be amazing, but we weren't quite there yet.
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#98. I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.
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#99. Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.
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#100. That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic.
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