John Frusciante Quotes

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• What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

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  Thinking, Gone

  Song: One More Of Me, Album: The Empyrean, 2009

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• Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

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  Soul, World, Your Soul

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• 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

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  Loneliness, People, Trying

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

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  Air, Breathing, My Time

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• Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

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  Art, Accepting, Art Is

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• Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

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  Matter, Music Is, My Friends

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• Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

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  Expression, Nothingness

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• I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

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  Heart, My Heart, Stills

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• 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

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  People, Pieces, Woods

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• The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.

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  Felt

  Interview with Spin, thechilisource.com. December 1991.

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• 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.

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  Love You, Cities, People

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• 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.

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  Suicide, Real, Thinking

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• 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

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  Beautiful, Song, Atmosphere

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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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  Spiritual, Guitar, Intellectual

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

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  Real, Hands, Imagination

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• 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?

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  Fun, Real, Book

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• 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

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  Art, Attention, World

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• You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true

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  Eye, Mind

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• Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

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  Sex, Expression, Matter

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

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  Lucky, World

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• As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.

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  Funny, Inspiring, Heart

  "The Red Hot Chili Peppers Gods of Sex Funk". Guitar Player Intreview with Joe Gore, October 1991.

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• You should always think good things and always look for the good in the world. If you look for the bad in the world, you will always find something bad. But if you look for the good you will find it, it is there

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  Thinking, Looks, World

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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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  Expectations, People, Not Interested

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• 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.

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  How You Feel, Way, Moments

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Moving, Way Forward

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