You should always think good things and always look for the good in the world. If you look for the bad in the world, you will always find something bad. But if you look for the good you will find it, it is there John Frusciante More Quotes by John Frusciante More Quotes From John Frusciante Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away. John Frusciante sound order people Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos. John Frusciante live-your-life cosmos able Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me. John Frusciante party golf jobs Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist. John Frusciante intention alive artist The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know. John Frusciante taught experience knows Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way John Frusciante wall space dream Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music. John Frusciante differences important energy What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible John Frusciante who-i-am feelings trying My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs. John Frusciante religious spiritual views I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music. John Frusciante play feelings thinking You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true John Frusciante eye mind What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative. John Frusciante creative earth years 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 guitar color goes-on But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism. John Frusciante buddhism instruction book I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument. John Frusciante use people world I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song. John Frusciante kind writing song A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong John Frusciante strong running night 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 crazy song moving 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 balance important worry I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with John Frusciante solo wanted
