Anthony Kiedis Quotes

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• You know what's the worst? Being a 16 year old girl who loves a famous Singer, not solely for his looks, but because you truly believe he is talented and devoted and you agree deeply with his message. Because no matter how intelligently and fully you can express that, people will assume you're just a silly teenager who thinks a famous guy is cute.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Cute, Girl, Teenager

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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.

  Anthony Kiedis

  People, World, Chaos

  Interview With Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 26, 1999.

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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.

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  Girl, Sex, Night

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• I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.

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  Insanity, Heaven, Getting High

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• As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Breathing, Long, There Is Hope

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• I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change

  Anthony Kiedis

  Thinking, Special You, Perfect

  Interview with Mark Marvel, anthonykiedis.net. October 1994.

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• Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Beautiful, Sometimes, Horrible

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• Every true artist is at war with the world.

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  War, Artist, World

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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.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Life, Lessons, Sometimes

  Interview With Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 26, 1999.

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• Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Girl, Kind, Bunch

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.94, Hachette UK

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• Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Distance, Way, Intention

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.188, Hachette UK

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

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  Art, Thinking, Mind

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• Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

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  Energy, Empty, Flooding

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• Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

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  People, Creative, Mind

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.255, Hachette UK

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• My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Want

  "For Anthony Kiedis, What Doesn't Kill You Only Makes Your Book Longer" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. October 07, 2004.

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• There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.

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  Real, Eye, Heart

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• Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Thinking, Land, Racism

  SPIN interview, thechilisource.com. February 1990.

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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.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Mistake, Reality, People

  "Anthony Kiedis interview: Full transcript". Interview with Sofia Wenborn, tvnz.co.nz.

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• I never felt like dying was a good idea.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Ideas, Dying, Good Ideas

  "The Hot List". Q Magazine Interview with Paul Rees, September, 2011.

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

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  Thinking, Sound, Wanted

  "Anthony Kiedis Interview Radio 2". Interview with Chris Evans, thechilisource.com. June 17, 2016.

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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.

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  Balance, Littles, Way

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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.

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  Son, Years, Drug

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• Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.

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  Inventing, New Things

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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!

  Anthony Kiedis

  Animal, Men, Atrocities

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• Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Fun, Thinking, Realizing

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.55, Hachette UK

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