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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.

John Frusciante

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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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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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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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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'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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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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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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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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Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.
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For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
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I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.
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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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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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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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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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It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying
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And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.
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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
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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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