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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
Guitarist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
Expression
Truth
Matter
Really
Things
Artistic
Sex

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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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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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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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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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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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I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.
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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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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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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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The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
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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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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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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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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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