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Anthony Kiedis

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Singer-songwriter

Anthony Kiedis, born on November 1, 1962, is a renowned American singer-songwriter. He is a founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and is known for his distinctive voice and energetic stage presence.

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“The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me.”

Change Circumstances Behavior

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“Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little balls of bullshit, we could all become players in that great universal orchestra again.”

Universal Finite Orchestra

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“A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.”

Adventure Hyde Jekyll Misadventure

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“I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch.”

Friendship Hardship Drugs

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“Desecration is the smile on my face.”

Faces Smile On My Face

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“I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.”

Knows Sometimes Rocks Band

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“A rock star does not age!”

Doe Age Stars Rocks Rock Star

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“I never felt like dying was a good idea.”

Ideas Felt Dying Good Ideas

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“I think dying is the ultimate high...”

Thinking Dying Ultimate

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“I'm a crier - let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way.”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Cry Let Me Good Way

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“I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat men who eat hamburgers!”

Men Animal Happened Fats Witness Vegetarian Vegan Appetite Cows 80s Slaughter Atrocities Hamburgers Fat Man

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“My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.”

Seems Vices Invisible Dawn Discussion Theme Ongoing Sobriety Dusk Hacks Machetes

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“The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.”

Long Made Different Facts My Own Long Time Pie Junkie

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“The road is not a problem. It's not any more tempting. People don't come up with giant bags of drugs or gallons of alcohol and say, 'You've got to do this.' It happens to me more at home.”

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“To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...”

Years Heart Left Loses Happened Dramatic

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“A rock star never gets old!”

Stars Rocks Rock Star

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“Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.”

Helping Body Spirit Buddhism Healthy Help Me Healthy Relationship

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“I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.”

Ifs Used Night Hundred Hotel Tattoo Touring Calculations

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“I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.”

Thinking Knows Persons Drink Drug Temptation

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“I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.”

Years Son Battle Drug My Son

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“It is difficult to recognize true love, the one which you feel for the other person, when for years the girls, even more than one per night, after concerts would sneak in our beds and were willing to do everything - group sex also - just to stay with Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot.”

Feels Years Persons Night Girl Sex Difficult Groups Willing Bed Red Hot Concerts Sneak Red Hot Sneak In

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“I'm very aware of the chemistry. It's something you can't take for granted. I'm very thankful for it and I recognise the power of its reality in all of our lives. Some people don't and it's a mistake not to because people throw away god-given special chemistry that's very rare, very hard to find.”

People Hard Reality Given Mistake Our Lives Special Granted Chemistry Recognise Very Thankful

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“Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.”

Writing Mind Happened Influence Periods Substance Writing Music

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“I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.”

Young Life Is Opportunity Worry Band Infinite Bounty

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“I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.”

Littles Light Would Be Wish Fire Offers Band Competition Friendly

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“I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.”

Way Plans Wave Surf

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“You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.”

Knows Play Tree Climbs Bike

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“In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a really bad idea and I think the only people that benefited from it were Halliburton and people that made money from it, but that's not an excuse to have a war. Killing American kids so Halliburton can make money is not a righteous reason to go to war.”

People Thinking Made Ideas War Reason Kids Lasts Middle Century Killing Excuse Making Money Righteous Bad Ideas

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“You're not getting the b-level tunes. Our most recent producer, Danger Mouse, was quite sure about that. So you're getting the best of the best, the cream of the cream of what we have to offer.”

Levels Danger Offers Producers Tunes Cream Mice Best Of The Best

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“We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.”

Littles Real Care Song Packages Singles Vinyl

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“I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.”

Littles Artist My Own

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“We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.”

Used Fighting Experiments Dice

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“The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.”

Knows Stills Energy Saws France God Knows

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“The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.”

Kind Stills Sound Team Collectives Attributes Brotherhood

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“We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.”

Thinking Wanted Sound

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“My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.”

Thinking Age Young Guy Musician Unique Tables Idiot Young Age Talented Musicians

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“Paul McCartney's dad told him that when he was a kid. "Son, play the piano and when you go to parties, the girls will come to you."”

Play Kids Girl Party Son Dad Piano

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“I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.”

Years Stills Impressed Old Woman

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“All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.”

Long Reading Summer Festivals Leeds

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“What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.”

Years Good Friend Best Friend

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“Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.”

Knows Life Sometimes Lessons Painful Life Lesson Sometimes In Life Hammered

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“You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.”

Knows Beer Pot Marijuana Sober

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“I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.”

Thinking Mind Art Creation Art Is Destruction Scar Tissue

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“It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.”

People World Seems Consciousness This World Chaos

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“We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.”

Ifs Knows Way Littles Asks Balance Radical Ask Me Desirable Scar Tissue

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“Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.”

Ifs Years Realizing Four Son Okay Partners My Son Four Years Lifelong

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“I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.”

Feels Kind Doe Body Water Your Body Feel Good Salt Surfing Salt Water

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“I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.”

World Beautiful Desire Girl Father Insatiable Beautiful Girl

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“Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.”

Different Guy Blood Type Band Scar Tissue Blood Type

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“I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.”

Knows Use Changed Industry Method Music Industry

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About the Author

Born: November 1, 1962
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 134

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