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.
John FruscianteEverything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
John FruscianteSo when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.
John FruscianteMusic is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.
John Frusciante