Quotes from 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.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

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.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

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

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

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

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

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

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

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

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.