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John Frusciante (Musician)

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 war

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.

— John Frusciante life

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

— John Frusciante people

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

— John Frusciante time

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

— John Frusciante world

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.

— John Frusciante time

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.

— John Frusciante music

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.

— John Frusciante fear

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.

— John Frusciante men

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.

— John Frusciante 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.

— John Frusciante people

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

— John Frusciante want

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

— John Frusciante art

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.

— John Frusciante war

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.

— John Frusciante life

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.

— John Frusciante music

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 love

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 art

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

— John Frusciante music

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

— John Frusciante song

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

— John Frusciante music

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 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.

— John Frusciante music

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.

— John Frusciante 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.

— John Frusciante time

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