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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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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
Guitarist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
Pain
Doesn
Shows
Wells
Well
Insane
Time
Slow
Show
Hope

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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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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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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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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
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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 never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite
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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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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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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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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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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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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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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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