John Anthony Frusciante Quotes
I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.
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I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
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If I'm blessed enough to have financial freedom in this world, my family is the ones I owe thanks to first.
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The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
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Every driver wants to compete in races - that is what we are all driving for.
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I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
