John Frusciante Quotes

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

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

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to

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.

The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

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.

I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?

I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.

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

You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and other dimensions. This life is hardly important to me. It's very small compared to the importance that I think the fourth and fifth dimension have. Those places are much more real to me, like when you have a dream and it's more real to you than real life. Compared to where I'll be going, this life seems like a dream that just feels like a dream.

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.