John Frusciante Quotes

I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

We just make music. For I never stop working.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

Composing music is hard work.

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

Me making music happened not even from a desire to make records.

I never wanted to stop making music.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

Making music is fantastic.

I'm one of those artists that doesn't actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like 'More than a Feeling.' After playing it to myself in a basement for such a long time, I'm happy to do it out on stage.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

Music is such an important part of my life.