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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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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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I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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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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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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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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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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I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
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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 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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Everything's very perfectly balanced for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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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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Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
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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'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!
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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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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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