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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
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Sex
Expression
Truth
Matter
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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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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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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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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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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 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 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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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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The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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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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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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I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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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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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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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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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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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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I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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