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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.

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 not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
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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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You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died
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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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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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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 never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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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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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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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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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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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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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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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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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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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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I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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