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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

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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I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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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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We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?
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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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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.
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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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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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What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.
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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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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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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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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
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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 think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.
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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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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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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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