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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

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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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.
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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.
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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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You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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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 never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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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've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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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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