Top 100 Anthony Kiedis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “This Life is More than Just a read through.”

— Anthony Kiedis

2. “As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.”

— Anthony Kiedis

3. “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.”

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4. “When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn’t otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.”

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5. “Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.”

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6. “I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.”

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7. “When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.”

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8. “When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I’ve grown to really appreciate the German people.”

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9. “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.”

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10. “Just the kind of girl I liked – the weirdo in the bunch.”

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

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12. “Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.”

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13. “When you’re at odds with yourself, it’s hard to create. Sometimes the writing process is as easy as opening up the window and letting in the breeze. And sometimes it’s like chiseling away at a block of granite with a pencil.”

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14. “I’m not a true vegan.”

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15. “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.”

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

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18. “Every true artist is at war with the world.”

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19. “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.”

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20. “Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.”

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

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22. “If that’s what you’re thinking, then don’t even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.”

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23. “I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I’m a certain type of person – which I’m not.”

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24. “We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.”

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25. “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.”

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

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27. “I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.”

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28. “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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29. “Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “Changing and inventing new things is great. That’s what we like to do.”

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32. “Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.”

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33. “In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.”

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34. “The minute you get out of your self-centered mind-set, you’re instantly freed of your own pain.”

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35. “She was a source of love and comfort and friendship and companionship and like-mindedness without any of the difficulties of a girlfriend.”

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36. “Honestly, I’m really just a teddy bear.”

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37. “That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic.”

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38. “The road is not a problem.”

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39. “I wanted to be the best at whatever it was that was in front of me.”

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40. “She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I’d be married with five kids now.”

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41. “You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The next time you see your girl, you can’t look her straight in the eyes the same way you did for all those years.”

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42. “Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.”

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43. “Your mouth was made to suck my kiss.”

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44. “I’m probably not long-term-relationship material for now.”

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45. “I didn’t have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.”

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

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47. “As a father now, I wouldn’t do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn’t do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.”

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48. “I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you’d meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.”

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49. “What doesn’t kill you only makes your book longer.”

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

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