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I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

John Frusciante

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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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So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.
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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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A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong
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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'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines
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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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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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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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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 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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Everything's very perfectly balanced for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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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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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.
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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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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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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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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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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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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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