Music Quotes

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

John Frusciante

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

John Frusciante

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

John Frusciante

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

In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have ene...

John Frusciante

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

John Frusciante

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

John Frusciante

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

John Frusciante

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

John Frusciante

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

John Frusciante

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

John Frusciante

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

John Frusciante

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

Jon Fishman

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

Jon Fishman

With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have the wrong piece of music over a scene, people aren't going to get the scene. If you have the wrong camera angle, people aren't going to pay attention. That's a...

Josh Fox

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

Jan Garbarek

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

Jan Garbarek

I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.

Jennifer Grey

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

Jerry Garcia

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.

John Guare

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

John Guare