When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed… — Flea Life Copy Share Image
For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of… — Flea Committing Copy Share Image
When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to… — Flea Air Copy Share Image
My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff… — Flea Education Copy Share Image
We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot. — Flea Always Copy Share Image
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
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
You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to… — Flea About Copy Share Image
“In a world that is so caught up in evil things, anything that is positive and beautiful should be shared by all.” — 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
The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about… — Flea High 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 Fruit Copy Share Image
I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms… — Flea Bunch Copy Share Image
When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it. — Flea Interesting 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
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine.… — Flea About Copy Share Image
I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And… — Flea Capable Copy Share Image
Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be… — Flea Also Copy Share Image
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
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but… — Flea American 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 Los angeles 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
We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild… — Flea Aggressive Copy Share Image
