Chad Smith quotes

Chad Smith is an American musician best known as the drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. His dynamic playing style and energetic stage presence have contributed significantly to the band's iconic sound. He has also collaborated with a variety of other artists across different genres. Here are 26 of his quotes:

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination. (Chad Smith)
I'm being a dad and a good husband. View quote
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Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs. View quote
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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. View quote
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For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes. View quote
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I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much. View quote
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Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor. View quote
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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. (Chad Smith)
The Meatbats are a throwback band. View quote
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Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that. View quote
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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. View quote
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Family time is really important to me. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else. View quote
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Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful. View quote
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I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time. View quote
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I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats. View quote
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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. (Chad Smith)
There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium. View quote
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Chad Smith

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Photo: Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: American Musician
Born: October 25, 1961
Quotes count: 26

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