John Frusciante Quotes

When I work on my music, I always kind of just try to do my best work.

I always try to write the best I can.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

Every album is like starting our career over again. We don't get blase, we don't get lazy.

Every time I went into the studio, I always sung with my heart. If it came out as strong, as good, as powerful as that to my fans, then I was satisfied. I never slacked. I always did all the songs the same way as the first.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.

Passion: It's what separates a singer from an entertainer. I hope I have passion for my music, my family, and my friends until they start shoveling dirt on my face.

I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

I don't want anyone to expect anything from me. I just want them to know that I'm gonna put 1,037% into whatever I do. If I tell you I'm gonna release a folk/reggae/country album, just know at bare minimum there's gonna be 1,010% put into it.

God has blessed me with the in-born talent for which I pour my heart out in the form of music.