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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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You should always think good things and always look for the good in the world. If you look for the bad in the world, you will always find something bad. But if you look for the good you will find it, it is there
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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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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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I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.
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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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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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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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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 still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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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 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 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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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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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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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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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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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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