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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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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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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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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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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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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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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've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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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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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 don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world
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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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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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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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You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body
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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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Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
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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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