John Frusciante Quotes & Sayings

“I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.”

“I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.”

“People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.”

“Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.”

“And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.”

“The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.”

“For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.”

“In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.”

“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.”

“For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.”