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I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#angeles #around #birds #canyon #frogs

I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#computer #computer program #created #down #i

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#bed #hospital #meter #parked #running

I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#challenged #competitive #directions #go #hand

I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#age #asked #because #doing #forty

I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#home #honda #i #miles #per

Great souls suffer in silence. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#great souls #silence #souls #suffer

I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I was a rock 'n' roll drummer and I don't think I used drums in my first ten years of film scoring. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#drummer #drums #film #film work #first

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#because #come #feel #i #i feel

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#appears #band #box #composer #famous