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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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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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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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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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The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
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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.
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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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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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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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Everything's very perfectly balanced for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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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 still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.
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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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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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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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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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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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