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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
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Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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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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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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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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Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.
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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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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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Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.
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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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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.
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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 never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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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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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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The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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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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