Top 100 Kiedis Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Kiedis

#1. 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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#2. nurse woke me at 4:30 a.m. on November 1, 1962, to announce the messiah had been wrapped in swaddling and was christened Anthony Kiedis.

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#3. Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

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#4. Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

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#5. 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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#6. I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.

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#7. 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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#8. What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

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#9. Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.

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#10. I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat
men who eat hamburgers!

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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

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#14. 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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#15. I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

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#16. Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

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#17. 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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#18. When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

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#19. A rock star does not age!

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#20. Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.

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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. I'm not a true vegan.

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#24. Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

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#25. 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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#26. I was withering away, mentally, spiritually, physically, creatively- everything was fading out.

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#27. It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.

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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.

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#33. I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

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#34. I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

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#38. 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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#39. I've acclimated to the music-while-exercising thing.

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#40. My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

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#41. I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.

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#42. Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

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#43. 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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#44. We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.

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#45. It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. Your mouth was made to suck my kiss.

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#49. But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

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#50. Well, I get excited about music.

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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. This Life is More than Just a read through.

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#54. Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.

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#55. Yeah baby, give me some of that rancid yak milk.

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#56. He's your best friend, he's with you day and night, he falls in love, see you next year

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#57. As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

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#58. Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

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#59. Just the kind of girl I liked - the weirdo in the bunch.

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#60. 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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#61. I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them.

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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

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#66. What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.

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#70. I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.

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#71. Every true artist is at war with the world.

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#72. Desecration is the smile on my face.

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#73. I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

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#74. Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven't gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

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#75. We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

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#76. It was all tragic information because it wasn't me, but I definitely didn't lose interest and move on

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#77. You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

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#78. Having gone through it all had changed our outlooks. You can't be as much of a bitch as you were before, you can't be as much as an egomaniac, you can't feel as much like the world owed you something, you can't be the 'where's mine?' guy.

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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. I never felt like dying was a good idea.

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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change

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#85. One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.

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#86. The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

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#87. 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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#88. I'm very aware of the chemistry. It's something you can't take for granted. I'm very thankful for it and I recognise the power of its reality in all of our lives. Some people don't and it's a mistake not to because people throw away god-given special chemistry that's very rare, very hard to find.

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#89. I have to laugh at myself.

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#90. I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

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#91. 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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#92. And we used "I love you" like an apology for the things we couldn't give each other

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#93. Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

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#94. 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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#95. 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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