John Anthony Frusciante Quotes
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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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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
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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last
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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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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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It’s, it’s like I’m in the fourth dimension and somebody is asking me to describe it verbally and that’s what the fourth dimension is all about, is no words, no symbols, no images, all pure, real energy and vibrations. And, and if I thought about how cruel of a world this is, I would probably just commit suicide after a while, if that was what I spent my energy thinking about. I would definitely not have any strength left to create music.
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All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.
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I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines
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But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body
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Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.
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The Will to Death is what keeps me alive
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You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.
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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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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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I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
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It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.
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It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it
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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.
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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.
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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