John Frusciante Quotes

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.

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

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

To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died ... At least the ones I'm connected to.

You just never know when somebody's gonna die. It could happen at any moment so you've got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

It means so much to me when pretend becomes real.

Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.

Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.

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

Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!

When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they're all smiling at me, and it's a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy ...

Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.

People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.

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

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

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

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

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

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

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

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.

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.

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

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

I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?

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

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.

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

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

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

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.

We're really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?

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

You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.

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

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

What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I'm trying to represent the feelings that I'm feeling as purely as possible

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

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

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

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

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

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

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.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

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

Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.

I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and other dimensions. This life is hardly important to me. It's very small compared to the importance that I think the fourth and fifth dimension have. Those places are much more real to me, like when you have a dream and it's more real to you than real life. Compared to where I'll be going, this life seems like a dream that just feels like a dream.

All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.

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

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

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

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.

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

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.

Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be

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

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

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