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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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Imagination
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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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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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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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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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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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Everything's very perfectly balanced for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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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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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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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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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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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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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 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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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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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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For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.
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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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