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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 also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.
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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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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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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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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'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.
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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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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 write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.
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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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You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died
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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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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
John Frusciante
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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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.
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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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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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I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
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