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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.

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
Water
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Music
Giving
Thing
Life
Like
Pure
Inside

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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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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 combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.
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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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People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.
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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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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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Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
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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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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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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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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.
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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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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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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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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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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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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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