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For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.
John Frusciante
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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
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We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?
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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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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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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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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 wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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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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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.
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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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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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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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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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You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.
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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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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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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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