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Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

John Frusciante

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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
Guitarist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
Possible
Music
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Life

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I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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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'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.
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Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.
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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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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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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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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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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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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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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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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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I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.
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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'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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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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Everything's very perfectly balanced for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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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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