John Frusciante Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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