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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.

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
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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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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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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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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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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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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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I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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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 wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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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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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 don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world
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Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way
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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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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.
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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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That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.
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It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.
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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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