Frusciante Guitar Quotes & Sayings

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world. — John Frusciante

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that. — John Frusciante

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old. — John Frusciante

The traveler, travelling through it,
May not-dare not openly view it;
Never its mysteries are exposed
To the weak human eye unclosed;
So wills its King, who hath forbid
The uplifting of the fringed lid;
And thus the sad Soul that here passes
Beholds it but through darkened glasses. — Edgar Allan Poe

When we see what He has for us there, we'll agree with Paul, when he wrote about Heaven, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him (1 Corinthians 2:9). - Things we didn't even imagine could be so beautiful and wonderful. — David Berg

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself. — John Frusciante

Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness. — John Frusciante

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein. — Eva Hoffman

Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done. — Amy Poehler

Rules are meant to be broken. — Donald J. Trump

The perfect man is someone you love who also loves you. — Mildred Newman

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table. — John Frusciante

(I always thought that they should make an epidural that works from the neck up, which was a condition I aspired to for most of what I laughingly refer to as my adult life.) — Carrie Fisher

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights. — John Frusciante

Today's Multiple Choice Thought
There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in:
a. the bedroom
b. the nursery
c. the garden — Robert Breault

The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it. — Bill Klem

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead — John Frusciante

You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens. — Jay Maisel