Best 90 quotes of John Frusciante on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

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.

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.

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.

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 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?

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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