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" I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history. "
Flea
Love
Just
Film
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" We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal. "
Flea
Goal
Us
People
" 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
Work
Joy
Music
" 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
School
Relationship
Music
" 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
Kind
Focus
Music
" As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is. "
Flea
Song
Out
Think
" For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s. "
Flea
Jazz
Mark
American
" I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves. "
Flea
Ignorant
People
Rock
" Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it. "
Flea
My Life
Beautiful
Energy
" 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
Grow
Easy
Fall
" I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner. "
Flea
Corner
Think
Far
" I studied chord theory and started playing the piano. "
Flea
Piano
Playing
Started
" 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
Old
School
People
" 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
Great
Jazz
Growing Up
" We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot. "
Flea
Record
Always
Than
" 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
Young
Old
Musicians
" I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.' "
Flea
Animal
Music
Love
" You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions. "
Flea
Think
Living
World
" My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood. "
Flea
Childhood
Father
Life
" 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
Guitar
Two
High School
" 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
Someone
" I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. "
Flea
Musician
Love
Got
" 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
Hot
Trumpet
Red
" We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense. "
Flea
Wild
Aggressive
Dark
" The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. "
Flea
Enough
Good
Improvisation
" 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
Trumpet
Up
" I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess. "
Flea
Performing
Get
Consciousness
" With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing. "
Flea
Feel
Always
Acting
" 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
You
Lifestyle
Integrity
" It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else. "
Flea
Nice
Conversation
Fun
" When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it. "
Flea
Something
Interesting
Time