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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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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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But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
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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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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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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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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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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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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 wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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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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I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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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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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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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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