John Frusciante Quotes
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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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
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With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.
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I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.
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All experience helps when you write.
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I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.
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The cool thing about those small-budget movies is that there's a tremendous amount of freedom the filmmakers have since there's less money at stake.
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I saw 'Hairspray' at the Pantages in L.A. It came to the Pantages right before I did the movie, and just being in New York sometimes and seeing the marquees and everything like that, I'm like, 'I really, really have to go experience a Broadway play.'
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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.
