Explore Quotes by 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.

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.

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

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The imagination is the most real world that we know _x000D_ because we each know it first hand.

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

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

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

You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true