Explore Quotes by John Frusciante

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?

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

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

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

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

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

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

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

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.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

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.

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

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.

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

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.

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

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

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

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 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.