John Frusciante Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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 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'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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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