John Frusciante Quotes

By the way, I’m not saying my music comes from the spirits and yours doesn’t; all the crap music everywhere in the world, it all comes from spirits. Crappy music comes from crappy spirits.

Well, it was put to me by that guy" (the guardian spirit) when I was, like, four. So I went into my parents` record collection and found a rock`n`roll compilation. And when my mom asked if I wanted to move to L.A., I said, "Yeah," because I knew that was where the rock stars were. I was seven. Then when I found punk and listened to the Germs, I started seeing how I was part of this. I remember being out on the baseball field when I was 11, and I felt like such an outsider. Standing there in right field, I started making up an angry punk song in my head, and I went home and wrote, like, 20 songs in a row. I realized it didn`t even matter if I knew how to play guitar yet."

"It`s like I`m in the 4th dimension and somebody`s asking me to describe it and that`s what the 4th dimension is about. There`s no words,no symbols, no images it`s all pure real energy and vibrations."

"To make the album without the experience in my life would be impossible. It`s only because I`ve gone so deep inside myself and faced so many things that by nature I should be scared of. You know, being in a room and sitting there with a ghost, hearing their voice in your head and seeing them as clearly as I`m seeing you right now."

"Most of my supernatural experiences are in the past. It`s a world I don`t really delve into that much anymore. But I believe that there are things we don`t see with our eyes that are making every moment what it is. And every person is made up of a bunch of people. And everybody who`s alive is everybody who died. I just think it`s all one big energy working together. I see the world as being very balanced-completely, perfectly balanced."

"To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I`m connected to."

"1. Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
2.Music is the face of God.
3. The best service you can do for mankind is mind your own business.
4. Don`t ever trust a man who says `I am going to kill you in the name of God` ."

"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."

"Music is not something that you are in control of. It comes from somewhere else. If you`re that middleman between the cosmos and the real world on Earth that hte music comes through, you are very lucky. When you record music, it`s not your job to try to control anything. It`s more about being in the right place and flowing with the energies that are in the air around you and with the people that you are making the music with. The second that someone thinks music comes from themselves, and that they are the ones responsible for it, is when they go off track. The most important thing you could ralize is that you are the least important part of the whole process. Music is going to be made whether any one artist is here or not. If John Lennon or Jimi Hendrix had disappeared, music still would have gone on, changed, grown, and been the beautiful thing that it is. You take away the music, all you have are the individuals, and they don`t mean anything. The individual is nothing, it`s the music that`s in the air all the time that`s important, and you have to be humble in the face of that."

"I think my songs exist before I write them, in a place called the fourth dimension where sounds and shapes and colours are the land. They`re the air and the grass and the wood and they`re all these feelings. When a collection of those feelings is put into my head, because I`m tuned into that place, I have the skill technically to turn it into a song."

"I used to always see things in the outside world as being `the enemies of an artist`. I don`t see it that way anymore. To me, everything an artist needs is inside of himself, and it really doesn`t matter what`s going on in the world. Nothing else matters. You don`t need to have things perfect, you don`t need to have a lot of money or a beautiful girl. If your job in life is to create, you can find inside yourself what you need to make beautiful art and beautiful music. But you might have to clean yourself out, spiritually or physically. 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."

"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."

"The point is, I`m weird, but I never felt weird."

"Music isn`t the Olympics."

"There`s a big place I`m connected to when I write. As long as I have the feeling inside me that I`m connected to this huge, peaceful, beautiful place, no matter what I write, if it`s in conjunction with that place, it`s always gonna have meaning. It`s not really necessary to truly understand what I write, as long as I`ve got that feeling behind me."

"Once I write the song I believe that it creates a new atmosphere in a place called the fifth dimension where it creates new life and energy and it makes things better and it makes new places to live for the spirits who frequent these places."

"All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I`ll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams."

When you`re talking to a fan, you`re talking to somebody who`s not talking to you. They`re talking to a photograph, they`re talking to their image of you, they`re talking to a walking poster. And if you make the mistake of thinking, that they`re talking to you... When they tell you that you`re a genius, or that you`re so fucking cool... Or whatever their fucking image is of you... Then if you believe it... Then you, the real human being dies.

I love the spirits that are inside me, I don`t give a fuck about this body.

My songs I write them like I play them for one person and then when I see so many people going out to it, I feel so happy. You know how big you all are, everyone of you is like an hundred spirits to me.

Somebody who spends their days absorbed in this music that I`ve been making with the chili peppers and in my solo music that I make, I know that`s having a good impact on them. Like I know it`s coming from a completly healthy place. I know the spirits that helped me do it are wonderful parts of the universe (...) And I just know that`s healthy for people.

I never had to get a job or anything `cause I ended up joining the chili peppers like the day my dad told me he wouldn`t give me anymore money.

William Burroughs always talks about the world is nothing but allies and enemies. And it`s important to understand what things around you are the enemies and a lot of the time your worst enemy is your ego.

When you`re practicing and playing along with other music so much it`s a natural bi-product of that that you`re going to write songs.

I feel that for a musician to keep getting better has to keep changing. And if you`re constantly always referring to the same things, to me it just grows stale.

You see, one time I used to have this girlfriend named Amanda and we were always breaking up and she was crazy, she was just completely nuts. And this girl is so crazy that one time, she was on her period and we were playing strip card game, we were stripping, me and her and her friend and my friend Bill. We were all completely naked and then the loosing team had to eat/lick one part of the winning team body, that they said, and then she took her bloody tampon from the girl who was on the winning team, completely bloody, she had to lick the tampon. Not only did she lick a little bit of the tampon but she put it in her mouth and sucked it like if it was a cock. A really bloody brown tampon. It was awful. She`s a nuts"(...)"You ask how I deal with all the girls who want to fuck me. These are the types of girls that keep showing up so that`s why I don`t have sex anymore, `cause I don`t have the energy to deal with these kinds of situations anymore because I want to deal with playing music.

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

I loved Jimmy Page since I was 7, he`s the reason why I began to play. My favorite way to pratice is lean all his solos and i can play "Since I`ve Been Loving You" from the beginning to end

I know that now i couldn`t be happier than I am. Sex often distracts me from my job. I don`t want to find myself in a relationship unless I can coordinate it with my job, without letting it influence my musical self.

Expression is when you`re at one with nothingness, and you just beathe with your playing.

There`s a big place I`m connected to when I write. As long as I have the feeling inside me that I`m connected to this huge, peaceful, beautiful place, no matter what I write, if it`s in conjunction with that place, it`s always gonna have meaning. It`s not really necessary to truly understand what I write, as long as I`ve got that feeling behind me.