John Frusciante Quotes

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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• My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

  

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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.

  

  John Frusciante
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