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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
John Frusciante
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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
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Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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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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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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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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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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Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way
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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.
John Frusciante
I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.
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Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.
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I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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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 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 never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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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.
John Frusciante
I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
John Frusciante
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.
John Frusciante
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 the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
John Frusciante
I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
John Frusciante
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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