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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

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JOHN ACTON My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.
JOHN MCENROE Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre...
JOHN RUSKIN There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.
JOHN ASHCROFT If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just g...
JOHN LYDON It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not rec...
JOHN RAMPTON Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you reall...
JOHN WOODEN I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
JOHN SUNUNU Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
JOHN LENNON We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are aro...
JOHN LOCKE Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
JOHN LENNON Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
JOHN SCALZI Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
JOHN KNOLL In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approxima...
JOHN MCAFEE My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and t...
JOHN TYLER Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make fr...
JOHN WOODEN