Chad Smith Quotes

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• For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms…
• We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's…
• I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and…
• Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.
• I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that…
• Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we…
• I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to…
• I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.
• The Meatbats are a throwback band.
• There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing…
• Family time is really important to me.
• I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.
• I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.
• I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.
• I'm being a dad and a good husband.
• In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.
• Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
• Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the…
• Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's…
• I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in,…

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