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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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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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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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I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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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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To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.
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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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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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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 never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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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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Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.
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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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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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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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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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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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I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
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