Top 90 John Frusciante Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— John Frusciante

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2. “That’s what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.”

— John Frusciante

3. “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.”

— John Frusciante

4. “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

5. “The Will to Death is what keeps me alive.”

— John Frusciante

6. “When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don’t get to extreme heights.”

— John Frusciante

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7. “What’s gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.”

— John Frusciante

8. “Music is my friend, no matter where I go.”

— John Frusciante

9. “I’m not interested in meeting people’s expectations, and I’m not interested in pleasing people.”

— John Frusciante

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

— John Frusciante

11. “The point is, I’m weird, but I never felt weird.”

— John Frusciante

12. “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

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

— John Frusciante

14. “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.”

— John Frusciante

15. “I’ve been in pain hope it doesn’t show I’ve been insane well the time is slow.”

— John Frusciante

16. “I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?”

— John Frusciante

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17. “It’s my dream to make music that can make people feel like they’re flying.”

— John Frusciante

18. “Anybody who’s a guitar player that’s spent that time with another guitar player, there’s nothing better than that.”

— John Frusciante

19. “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.”

— John Frusciante

20. “I never feel like I’m running out of ideas, because it is clear to me – music is infinite.”

— John Frusciante

21. “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.”

— John Frusciante

22. “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.”

— John Frusciante

23. “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.”

— John Frusciante

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

— John Frusciante

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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.”

— John Frusciante

28. “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.”

— John Frusciante

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

— John Frusciante

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30. “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

31. “If anything unfolds, it’s supposed to.”

— John Frusciante

32. “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.”

— John Frusciante

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

— John Frusciante

34. “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...”

— John Frusciante

35. “Well, I don’t need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won’t last.”

— John Frusciante

36. “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.”

— John Frusciante

37. “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

38. “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.”

— John Frusciante

39. “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.”

— John Frusciante

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

— John Frusciante

41. “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.”

— John Frusciante

42. “Everything’s very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there’s lots of good things.”

— John Frusciante

43. “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.”

— John Frusciante

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

— John Frusciante

45. “Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it’s soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.”

— John Frusciante

46. “I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.”

— John Frusciante

47. “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

48. “Pagers are my life – I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.”

— John Frusciante

49. “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

50. “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.”

— John Frusciante