I was raised Quote by Flea “I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.” — Flea ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare I was raised Ignorant Ignorant people Music People Raised Rock Themselves Think Who
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is. — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds. — Tip O'Neill Copy Share Image
For some reason, as a kid, I felt outwardly embarrassed to say that I liked rock music. I don't know where that came from.… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like. Rock was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They also forget… — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap. — Sting Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody. — Flea Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school. — Flea Copy Share
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
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 Copy Share
I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history. — Flea Copy Share
I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician. — Flea Copy Share
Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about. — Flea Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male… — Alan King Copy Share Image
I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman. — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me. — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. — Joely Fisher Copy Share Image
I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
