John Frusciante Professions : Guitarist Born : March 5, 1970 Browse All Authors Top 107 quotes by John Frusciante Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul John Frusciante your-soul soul world Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into John Frusciante art-is accepting art 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 John Frusciante loneliness trying people What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it. John Frusciante gone thinking 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. John Frusciante cities love-you people That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air. John Frusciante my-time breathing air 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 John Frusciante woods pieces people I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life. John Frusciante my-heart stills heart Music is my friend, no matter where I go. John Frusciante my-friends music-is matter 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 John Frusciante atmosphere song beautiful When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights. John Frusciante guitar intellectual spiritual 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? John Frusciante real fun book 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. John Frusciante real suicide thinking The imagination is the most real world that we know John Frusciante real imagination hands The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird. John Frusciante felt Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter. John Frusciante expression matter sex Expression is when you are at one with nothingness. John Frusciante nothingness expression 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 John Frusciante attention world art You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them. John Frusciante how-you-feel moments way We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music. John Frusciante lucky world Similar Authors Al Di Meola guitarist Albert Collins guitarist Bill Kirchen guitarist Bukka White guitarist Buddy Guy guitarist Buckethead guitarist All Authors
