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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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Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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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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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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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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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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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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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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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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You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.
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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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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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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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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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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.
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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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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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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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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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I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.
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