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Anthony Kiedis
American
Musician
About the author
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,
American
Musician
#People
#World
#Consciousness
#Beauty
#Chaos
You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
Anthony Kiedis,
American
Musician
#Love
#Beer
We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.
Anthony Kiedis,
American
Musician
#Talk
#People
#World
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,
American
Musician
#Life
#Open
We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
Anthony Kiedis,
American
Musician
#People
I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.
Anthony Kiedis,
American
Musician
#Love
#Respect
#Friends
Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.
Anthony Kiedis,
American
Musician
#Blood
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Anthony Kiedis,
American
Musician
#Art
#Mind
#Destruction
#Creation
In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.
Anthony Kiedis,
American
Musician
#Will
#Consciousness
But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.
Anthony Kiedis,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Art
#Music
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.
Anthony Kiedis,
American
Musician
#Time
#Being
#Balance
#Act
#Radical