John Frusciante Quotations

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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'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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

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.

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

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.

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.

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'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 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.

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

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

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

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!

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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.

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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