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

John Frusciante

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

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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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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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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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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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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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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 wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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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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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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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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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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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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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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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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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
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And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.
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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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Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
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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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