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I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

John Frusciante

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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
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Trickfinger
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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 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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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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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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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible
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So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.
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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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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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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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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 think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
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Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
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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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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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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong
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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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