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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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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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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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To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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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 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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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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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 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 never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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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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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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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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