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

John Frusciante

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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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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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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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Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
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To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.
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I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
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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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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
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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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You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body
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You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died
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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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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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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.
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