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. – John Frusciante
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. – John Frusciante
I feel like I’d like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that’s fine. – John Frusciante
In the Chili Peppers I’m a part of that world in a pretty big world and that’s just the way it is. – John Frusciante
You just never know when somebody’s gonna die. It could happen at any moment so you’ve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them. – John Frusciante
The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know. – John Frusciante
I’m not interested in meeting people’s expectations, and I’m not interested in pleasing people. – John Frusciante
For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table. – John Frusciante
Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification. – John Frusciante
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. – John Frusciante
I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I’m involved in. – John Frusciante
I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach. – John Frusciante
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. – John Frusciante
I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it’s reflective of the chords that I’m considering as I’m soloing, and at the same time I’m going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument. – John Frusciante
I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music. – John Frusciante
Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it’s soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world. – John Frusciante
I’m not interested in forcing my music on people, and that’s what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it. – John Frusciante
Everything’s very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there’s lots of good things. – John Frusciante
In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy. – John Frusciante
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. – John Frusciante
For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he’s another creative person who works as hard as I do. – John Frusciante
I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there’s been points in my life when they weren’t around, and it’s a real sort of miserable existence. – John Frusciante
And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something. – John Frusciante