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Chad Smith

"Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that."

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Akshay Vasu

"We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types."

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"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."

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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

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"That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers."

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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

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"Old foxes want no tutors."

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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."

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"All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems."

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"Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish."

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"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."

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"Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything."
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"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 got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath."
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"Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner."
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"Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that."
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"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 read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school."
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"I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock."
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"Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together."
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"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 garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians."
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"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 went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player."
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"Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head."
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