Josh Klinghoffer Quotes

#1. The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

Josh Klinghoffer

#2. I knew what I was getting into: 72-ounce steaks, shakes by the quart, atomic wings. When I landed 'Man v. Food' in 2008, I accepted the fact that my weight would fluctuate. But instead of stressing about the scale, I made my long-term health a primary concern.

Adam Richman

#3. The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.

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#4. We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.

Ron Fournier

#5. I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'

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#6. Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

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#7. I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

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#8. I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

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#9. Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

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#10. Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks.

Erik Larson

#11. My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

John Wesley

#12. Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#13. Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

Paul Brunton

#14. A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province consists of its inhabitants. If anybody has a right to be heard in this case it is these inhabitants. Boundary disputes should be settled by plebiscite.

Ludwig Von Mises

#15. Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.

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#16. I don't think there should be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, period.

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#17. Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

C.S. Lewis

#18. Person who loves you is never the same person who you love. That's the reason why love is always sad feeling.

Amer Jaganjac

#19. I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.

Josh Klinghoffer