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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

John Frusciante

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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
Guitarist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
Nothingness
Expression

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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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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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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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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
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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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And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.
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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 try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.
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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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I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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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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Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.
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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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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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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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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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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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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 think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
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