Top 30 John Frusciante Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.