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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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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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I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world
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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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Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
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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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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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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 never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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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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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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Everything's very perfectly balanced for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
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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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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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