John Frusciante Quotes

• 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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• 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.

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• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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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• 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.

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

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

   

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• 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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• I don’t want to be on the radio. I don’t want to be on Mtv.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

   

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• 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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• 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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John Frusciante (22)

Birth:	5th March, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist

About

John Anthony Frusciante was born in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers from 1988 until 1992, and again from 1998 until 2009. His albums list (with Red Hot Chili Peppers band) shown below: Mother's Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, By the Way, and Stadium Arcadium. His other albums list shown below: Smile from the Streets You Hold, To Record Only Water for Ten Days, From the Sounds Inside, Shadows Collide with People, The Will to Death, Inside of Emptiness, Curtains, Enclosure, and Trickfinger. He has received critical recognition for his guitar playing, ranking at number 18 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2003. He was ranked as number 42 in Gibson's list of the "50 Best Guitarists of All Time".

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