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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

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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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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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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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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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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
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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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Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!
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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'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.
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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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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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Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
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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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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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Everything's very perfectly balanced for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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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 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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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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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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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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