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I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.

John Frusciante

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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
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Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?
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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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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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I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
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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 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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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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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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I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.
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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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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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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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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 still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.
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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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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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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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