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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
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Sex
Expression
Truth
Matter
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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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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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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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I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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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 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 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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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 still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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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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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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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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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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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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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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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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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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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 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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