John Frusciante
John Frusciante
John Anthony Fruscianteis an American guitarist, singer, producer and composer. He is best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, from 1988 until 1992, and again from 1998 until 2009. He recorded five studio albums with them...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth5 March 1970
CountryUnited States of America
John Frusciante quotes about
song crazy moving
I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.
interesting people way
Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.
mean use sound
It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.
sound doe progressive
I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
player guitar guitar-player
Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
taken thinking people
But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
real thankfulness energy
I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
trying
Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
life horny trying
And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.
talking people frustrating
But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.
vocabulary helping ive-learned
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.
player guitar years
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.
alive
The Will to Death is what keeps me alive
music trying spirit
I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.