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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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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
Guitarist
Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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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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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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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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What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible
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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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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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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.
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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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I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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