Quotes About Flea Music

#1. 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

#2. I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

Flea

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

Flea

#4. If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

Betty Buckley

#5. 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.

Flea

#6. I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of music that came to us either at the flea market or in our living rooms or on the 'Ed Sullivan' show - all these places we were influenced by.

Sandra Cisneros

#7. Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.

Camille Paglia

#8. Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

Flea

#9. Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.

Sathya Sai Baba

#10. I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.

Flea

#11. I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

John Lennon

#12. To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day.

Benjamin Franklin

#13. 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

#14. I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

Flea

#15. 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

#16. 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.

Flea

#17. 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

#18. I'll walk up to a woman, I'll say the first thing that comes to mind: 'Hey, you hungry?'

Gabriel Iglesias

#19. When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

Flea

#20. Mind your mind! Check your heart! In the end, you shall realize that it was not just your heart and your mind which directed how you lived your life, but things that lived in your heart and in your mind were the true ink that wrote the story of your life in the best or worst manner!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#21. I was on a path that could've really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept me focused and gave me something to believe in and a sense of self-worth and a discipline was music.

Flea

#22. I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

Flea

#23. When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.

Flea

#24. I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

Nic Pizzolatto

#25. The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

Flea

#26. Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.

Flea

#27. Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

Flea

#28. 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.

Flea

#29. 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

#30. 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.

Flea

#31. Parents aren't allowed to kiss like this!

Jandy Nelson

#32. Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.

Chris Laidlaw

#33. 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.

Flea

#34. The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.

Michael Bloomberg

#35. When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.

Rajneesh

#36. About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!

Flea

#37. If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

James Lipton

#38. To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

Mary Brave Bird

#39. A new mind-set became imperative:

Hope Jahren

#40. We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's how I can get people like Slash, Flea and Kris Kristofferson on my album. Collaboration should be done through trades rather than charging each other a fortune.

Ronnie Wood