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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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You should always think good things and always look for the good in the world. If you look for the bad in the world, you will always find something bad. But if you look for the good you will find it, it is there
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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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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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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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For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.
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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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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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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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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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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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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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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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So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.
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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
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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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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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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
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I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
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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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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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