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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
Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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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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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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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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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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The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
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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've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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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 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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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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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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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'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines
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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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I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
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