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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
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Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
Trickfinger
John Anthony Frusciante
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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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I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.
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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've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
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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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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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Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.
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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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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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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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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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Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
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Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.
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The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
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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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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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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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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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