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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.

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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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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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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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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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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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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I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
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I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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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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