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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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John Frusciante
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 5
Guitarist
Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of 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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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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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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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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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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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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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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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
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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 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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Everything's very perfectly balanced for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
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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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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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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.
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