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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.

John Frusciante

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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
Guitarist
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Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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Music 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.
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Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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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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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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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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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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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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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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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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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.
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