John Frusciante Quotes

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 think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.

Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal

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.

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.

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.

And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.

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

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.

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

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

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

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

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.

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.

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

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

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 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?

Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

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

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.

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.

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

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

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

Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights' Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX.

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

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.

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

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

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