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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

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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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Exists
Gone
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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
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And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.
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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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Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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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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Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.
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You should always think good things and always look for the good in the world. If you look for the bad in the world, you will always find something bad. But if you look for the good you will find it, it is there
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Music is my friend, no matter where I go.
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I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.
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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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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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I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
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