Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by John Frusciante - Page 2

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 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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive