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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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Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.
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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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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.
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I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines
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I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.
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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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I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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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.
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