John Frusciante Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  How You Feel, Way, Moments

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• 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

  People, House, Needs

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• 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

  People, Path, Needed

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• 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.

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  Differences, Important, Energy

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• 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.

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  Order, People, Sound

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• 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

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  Thinking, Looks, World

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

  John Frusciante

  World, Good Things, Horrible

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

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  Dream, People, Flying

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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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  Mistake, Moving, Way Forward

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• 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

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  Doe, Eternal, Nothingness

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

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  Live Your Life, Cosmos, Able

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• I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow

  John Frusciante

  Pain, Insane, Shows

  Song: Been Insane, Album: Niandra Lades And Usually Just A T-Shirt

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• 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?

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  Jobs, Fun, Book

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• To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.

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  Voice, People, Spirit

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• 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.

  John Frusciante

  Space, Guitar, Hands

  High Times Magazine, July 1995.

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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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  Fate, Trying, Worst

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

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  Giving, Water, Pure

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• I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

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  Running, Ideas, Infinite

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

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  Writing, Guitar, Play

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Party, Golf

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• 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

  Jobs, Needs, Mood

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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.

  John Frusciante

  People, Energy, Way

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• 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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  Who I Am, Feelings, Trying

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• 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.

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  People, Feelings, I Smile

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• Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

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  Rocks, Amplification, Rock Music

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