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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
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Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
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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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The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
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Everything's very perfectly balanced for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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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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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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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 need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.
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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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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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Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
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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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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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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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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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I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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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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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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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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