John Frusciante Quotes

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.

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

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

You should always think good things and always look for the good in the world. If you look for the bad in the world, you will always find something bad. But if you look for the good you will find it, it is there

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.

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.

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

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

I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

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

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

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

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

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

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.

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.

What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

It’s, it’s like I’m in the fourth dimension and somebody is asking me to describe it verbally and that’s what the fourth dimension is all about, is no words, no symbols, no images, all pure, real energy and vibrations. And, and if I thought about how cruel of a world this is, I would probably just commit suicide after a while, if that was what I spent my energy thinking about. I would definitely not have any strength left to create music.

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

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

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

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

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.

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to

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

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

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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