Frusciante Guitar Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I am alone; make me your single goal --
My presence is sufficient for your soul;
I am your God, your one necessity --
With every breath you breathe, remember Me.

Farid Al-Din Attar

#3. 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

#4. No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#5. You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Neither should you have the same service style at every restaurant.

Danny Meyer

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Never develop a passion you can't afford. It'll eat your heart away like a bookworm.

Cornelia Funke

#9. Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

Fay Wray

#10. As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

Joseph Campbell

#11. The climate has been changing. Of course it [has]. Evidence throughout history, [which] we can assess, especially during human history, shows there have been ups and downs. But the last ten thousand years have been relatively stable compared to now.

Sylvia Earle

#12. 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

#13. I'm a fan of great storytelling.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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

John Frusciante

#15. Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

John Frusciante

#16. When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

John Frusciante

#17. I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.

Mike Shinoda