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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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Trickfinger
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I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.
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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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For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.
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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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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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Everything's very perfectly balanced for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.
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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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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.
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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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I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world
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I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
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But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
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Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.
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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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Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal
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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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I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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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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