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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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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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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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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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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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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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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'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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Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
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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've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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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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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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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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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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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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I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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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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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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Everything's very perfectly balanced for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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