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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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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
Guitarist
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Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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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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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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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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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
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But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
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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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I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
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For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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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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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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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.
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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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I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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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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I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.
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And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.
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I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
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