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John Frusciante

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 5, 1970

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

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

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

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

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

John Frusciante

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

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

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

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

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

John Frusciante

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.

John Frusciante

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

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 don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

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

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

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 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

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

John Frusciante