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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
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People
Flying
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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 just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.
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Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.
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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 never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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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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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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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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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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Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way
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I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.
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I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.
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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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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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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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Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
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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 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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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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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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