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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
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Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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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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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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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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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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Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
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I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.
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We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?
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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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I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world
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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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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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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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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
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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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I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
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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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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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