John Frusciante Quotes

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is. — John Frusciante

The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird. — John Frusciante

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time. — John Frusciante

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song. — John Frusciante

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach. — John Frusciante

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs. — John Frusciante

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music. — John Frusciante

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life. — John Frusciante

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song. — John Frusciante

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to — John Frusciante

Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water. — John Frusciante

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul — John Frusciante

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in. — John Frusciante

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool. — John Frusciante

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people. — John Frusciante

Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter. — John Frusciante

Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos. — John Frusciante

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet. — John Frusciante

It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound. — John Frusciante

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification. — John Frusciante

The curtains were made for moving Cause you know sometimes you're not always there — John Frusciante

I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines — John Frusciante

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day. — John Frusciante

Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way — John Frusciante

Making art is about accepting what's going on around you and turning it into — John Frusciante

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead — John Frusciante

You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died — John Frusciante

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive — John Frusciante

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas. — John Frusciante

I don't pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that's the whole world — John Frusciante

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world. — John Frusciante

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it. — John Frusciante

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people. — John Frusciante

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it — John Frusciante

I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow — John Frusciante

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness. — John Frusciante

I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with — John Frusciante

As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great. — John Frusciante

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs. — John Frusciante

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism. — John Frusciante

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv. — John Frusciante

So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things. — John Frusciante

Pagers are my life
I try to get them in to our music as much as possible. — John Frusciante

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now. — John Frusciante

I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world. — John Frusciante

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come. — John Frusciante

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience — Anthony Kiedis

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air. — John Frusciante

You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true — John Frusciante

I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite — John Frusciante

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that. — John Frusciante

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know. — John Frusciante

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist. — John Frusciante

You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body — John Frusciante

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things. — John Frusciante

I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned. — John Frusciante

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music. — John Frusciante

Music is my friend, no matter where I go. — John Frusciante

The imagination is the most real world that we know
because we each know it first hand. — John Frusciante

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights. — John Frusciante

A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong — John Frusciante

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments. — John Frusciante

Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last — John Frusciante

Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways. — John Frusciante