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The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

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
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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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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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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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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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I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.
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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.
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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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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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I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.
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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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You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body
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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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We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?
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I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.
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It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.
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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 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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