John Frusciante quotes - page 2

I guide my fate
And what it's good for
There's no telling
It's blood
It's a flood. (John Frusciante)

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

John Frusciante

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

John Frusciante

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.

John Frusciante

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.

John Frusciante

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.

John Frusciante

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.

John Frusciante

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.

John Frusciante

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.

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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.

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

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.

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

John Frusciante

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.

John Frusciante

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

John Frusciante

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.

John Frusciante

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.

John Frusciante

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

John Frusciante

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

John Frusciante

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.

John Frusciante

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. (John Frusciante)

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.

John Frusciante

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

John Frusciante

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

John Frusciante

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

John Frusciante

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Occupation: American Musician
Born: March 5, 1970
Quotes count: 65
Wikipedia: John Frusciante

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