You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to… — Flea Copy Share Image
I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my… — Flea Copy Share Image
My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone.… — Flea Childhood Copy Share Image
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When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and… — Flea Baby Copy Share Image
Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling… — Flea Beautiful Copy Share Image
I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little… — Flea Education Copy Share Image
The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards… — Flea Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have… — Flea Copy Share Image
Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives… — Flea Genius Copy Share Image
Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to… — Flea Discipline Copy Share Image
Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first… — Flea Copy Share Image
About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited… — Flea Alma mater Copy Share Image
Water is my main state. If I time before I run - like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half… — Flea Food Copy Share Image
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I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running… — Flea Beautiful Copy Share Image
Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires… — Flea Chili peppers Copy Share Image
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. — Flea Being Copy Share Image
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I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess. — Flea Consciousness Copy Share Image
Outside of a couple of times I ran without eating right or being too tired, I always feel great after I run. — Flea Copy Share Image
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I… — Flea Jazz Copy Share Image
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When I got with Nina Greenberg, I had been running for a few months already without a trainer. But then she gave… — Flea Ice Copy Share Image
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine.… — Flea Copy Share Image
Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the… — Flea Aesthetics Copy Share Image
The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of… — Flea Educated people Copy Share Image
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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why… — Flea Copy Share Image
The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of… — Flea Copy Share Image
I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing… — Flea Dad Copy Share Image
It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer… — Flea Copy Share Image
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