Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Josh Klinghoffer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Josh Klinghoffer.

Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Josh Adam Klinghoffer is an American musician and since 2020 a touring member of Pearl Jam, performing guitar, additional percussion and backing vocals. He is also known for being the guitarist for the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers from 2009 to 2019, with whom he recorded two studio albums, I'm with You (2011) and The Getaway (2016), and the b-sides compilation, I'm Beside You (2013). Klinghoffer took the place of his friend and frequent collaborator John Frusciante in 2009, after a period as a touring member. Klinghoffer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2012, becoming the Hall of Fame's youngest-ever living inductee at the time, at age 32, passing Stevie Wonder, who was 38 when he was inducted.

American - Musician | Born: October 3, 1979

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I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

Josh Klinghoffer

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

Josh Klinghoffer

I don't think there should be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, period.

Josh Klinghoffer

It's a weird thing to have a Hall of Fame for rock. It's weird that I spent years worshiping the Cure, and here's the Chili Peppers, and then one gets in one doesn't. It's ridiculous. In my heart of hearts, it means nothing to me, but I do understand it means a lot to other people. It creates positivity.

Josh Klinghoffer

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

Josh Klinghoffer

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

Josh Klinghoffer

Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

Josh Klinghoffer

I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.

Josh Klinghoffer

The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.

Josh Klinghoffer

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates: my pure image of a band.

Josh Klinghoffer

I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'

Josh Klinghoffer

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates, my pure image of a band.

Josh Klinghoffer

Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Josh Klinghoffer

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