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.
John FruscianteMusic is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.
John FruscianteIn the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.
John FruscianteWeโre really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?
John Frusciante