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I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

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'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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Everything's very perfectly balanced for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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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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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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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 think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
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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'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.
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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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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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