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I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

John Frusciante

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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.
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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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Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way
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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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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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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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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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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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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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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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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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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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