John Frusciante Quotes

Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

In my honest opinion, in 'Volumes I' and 'II,' we were still trying to figure out our sound.

I wear my heart on my sleeve, and whatever I was giving, it was just coming from my natural place at that time. And you know, some albums I've made, I look back and think they were great, and then some I look at, and I think that wasn't right at the time.

We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.

Music is a continuous process. You evolve with every song.

The first record we made, we recorded and mixed in a day. The second record was recorded and mixed in a week. The third was recorded and mixed in a month, and 'New Wave' was mixed and recorded in six months. It was an epic project.

I try to stay true to my style, and I understand the foundation of my style and where it came from. But at the same time, you take that experience and learn different ways to write, different ways to turn on that creative energy.

That's the funny thing - if there was a year and half or two years of us being a band like every other band and then getting signed, we would probably have made 'Pretty. Odd.' as our first album instead.

Every time I go into the studio, it's some next level, man.

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

I used to throw a lot of stuff against the wall, just to see what ended up sticking; now I'm pretty much using everything that I create for a record.

The whole 'Djesse' project is, like, the paramount example of something that has evolved alongside me creating it. It started as one album, and then I realized that I had too many ideas for just one album.

My initial ideas are just a starting place. As a record goes along, it becomes more about making discoveries and getting excited about new songs.

When I listen to the first songs I wrote in Rammstein, I have to smile because it was so silly at time.

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

Out of all of the stuff I have done in my whole 12 years, the Mistress series I and II are the most enjoyable processes I've ever been through and definitely, I'm most proud of that music.

I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine.

I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.