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" 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
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Flea
Animal
Music
Love
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos. "
Flea
Doing
Chaos
Doing Good
" 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
Quality
Star
Music
" 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
School
My Life
Life
" I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school. "
Flea
Run
School
Exercise
" When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'. "
Flea
Time
College
Thought
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history. "
Flea
Love
Just
Film
" I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. "
Flea
Musician
Love
Got
" 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
Level
Through
Kid
" 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
Play
Life
Living
" 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
" 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
" 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 always thought I was a pretty terrible actor. "
Flea
Actor
Always
Pretty
" I studied chord theory and started playing the piano. "
Flea
Piano
Playing
Started
" I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves. "
Flea
Ignorant
People
Rock
" 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
" Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type. "
Flea
Spiritual
Feel
Wiser
" 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
" When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it. "
Flea
Something
Interesting
Time
" I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess. "
Flea
Performing
Get
Consciousness
" 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
" 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
" I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy. "
Flea
Sometimes
Acting
Crazy