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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
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Insane
Time
Slow
Show
Hope
Pain
Doesn
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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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The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
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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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Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!
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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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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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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 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.
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A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong
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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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For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.
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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 need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.
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Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
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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 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 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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