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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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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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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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For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.
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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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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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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 not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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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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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
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For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.
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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 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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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.
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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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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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The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
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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 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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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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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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