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John Frusciante Inspirational Quotes (66)

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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines
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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!
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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.
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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.
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I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
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I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.
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I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.
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I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.
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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.
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Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.
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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
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It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.
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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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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.
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Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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