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The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
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I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.
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I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.
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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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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.
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Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.
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I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.
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You should always think good things and always look for the good in the world. If you look for the bad in the world, you will always find something bad. But if you look for the good you will find it, it is there
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Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.
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You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.
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I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
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I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.
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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.
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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.
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We’re 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?
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Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.
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I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.
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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way
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