John Frusciante Quotes

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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• I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.

  

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• We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

  

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• Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.

  

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• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

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• I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.

  

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• One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.

  

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• We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

  

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• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

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• I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

  

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• The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

  

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• To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

  

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• If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

  

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• Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

  

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• The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

  

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• My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!

  

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• What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

  

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• I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.

  

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• I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

  

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• William James used to preach the 'will-to-believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will-to-doubt.' None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

  

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• I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

  

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• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

  

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• 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.

  

  John Frusciante
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Wish