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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
Guitarist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
Dream
Music
Feel
Feels
Make
Like
People
Flying

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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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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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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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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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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.
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Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal
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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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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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