Top 90 John Frusciante Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

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52. “I don’t want to be on the radio. I don’t want to be on Mtv.”

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53. “I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that’s taking place while they’re writing music.”

— John Frusciante

54. “The curtains were made for moving Cause you know sometimes you’re not always there.”

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55. “I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with.”

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56. “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.”

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57. “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

58. “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

59. “A slave in the fields one night He’s running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he’s feeling so strong.”

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

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61. “What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.”

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62. “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.”

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63. “I don’t have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I’ve learned, I’ve applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that’s all theory is – it’s symbols to help you identify those relationships.”

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64. “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.”

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

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66. “So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.”

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67. “I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.”

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68. “You don’t throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who’s watching you And besides you resides in your body.”

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69. “Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.”

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70. “I’m going through a phase where I’m really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I’ve learned.”

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71. “But I think I know just as many creative people who’ve never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.”

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72. “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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73. “Well, I don’t even know how to drive in this life, so I’m pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that’s about it!”

— John Frusciante

74. “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.”

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

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76. “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.”

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77. “All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I’ll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.”

— John Frusciante

78. “I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.”

— John Frusciante

79. “And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.”

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

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81. “Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I’m holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that’s at one with outer space and nothingness.”

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82. “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

83. “I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I’m involved in.”

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84. “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.”

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85. “I feel like I’d like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that’s fine.”

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86. “It means basically I’m using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.”

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87. “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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88. “In the Chili Peppers I’m a part of that world in a pretty big world and that’s just the way it is.”

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

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90. “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.”

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

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92. “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

93. “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.”

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94. “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.”

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95. “I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers – -it happens to all kinds of people.”

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96. “Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.”

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97. “Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don’t have any intentions as an artist.”

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98. “And there’s no better random generator tban a human being, with all those little inconsistencies, faults, and random things that happen in your voice and fmgers.”

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