John Anthony Frusciante Quotes
When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
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Did you really think I would sell you out?
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result.
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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I am working in Paris. I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.
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People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.
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Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.
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Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.
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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
