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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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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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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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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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For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.
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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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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
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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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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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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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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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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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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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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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You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died
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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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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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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.
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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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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
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