John Frusciante Quotes - Page 3

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

  John Frusciante

  Experience, Taught, Knows

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• Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way

  John Frusciante

  Dream, Wall, Space

  Song: Wind Up Space, Album: To Record Only Water For Ten Days, 2006

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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.

  John Frusciante

  Real, Thankfulness, Energy

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• 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.

  John Frusciante

  Years, Creative, Earth

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• Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

  John Frusciante

  Player, Guitar, Guitar Player

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

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• 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

  Spiritual, Religious, Views

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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.

  John Frusciante

  Worry, Balance, Important

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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.

  John Frusciante

  Play, People, Listen To Your Heart

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• 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

  People, Use, World

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

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• I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

  John Frusciante

  Phases, I've Learned

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

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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.

  John Frusciante

  Being Happy, People, Appreciate

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

  John Frusciante

  Artist, Alive, Intention

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• 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

  Book, Buddhism, Instruction

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

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• 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

  Each Day, Alive, Moments

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• 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.

  John Frusciante

  Song, Writing, Kind

  "My Radio's My Heart". Interview with Evan C., www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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

  John Frusciante

  Solo, Wanted

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "The Heart Is a Drum Machine". Documentary, Music, 2009.

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• 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

  Guitar, World, Littles

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• 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.

  John Frusciante

  Guitar, Color, Goes On

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• The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

  John Frusciante

  Alive

  Song: The Will To Death, Album: The Will to Death, 2004

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

  John Frusciante

  Thinking, Play, Feelings

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• 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

  John Frusciante

  Running, Strong, Night

  Song: Ah Yom

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• 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.

  John Frusciante

  Song, Crazy, Moving

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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.

  John Frusciante

  Friendship, Mean, Creative

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• 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

  Kids, Evil, Dolls

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